Pablo Picasso

"By the time you finish your education you are no longer young."

"Fundamentally, I'm like anybody else. I'm not a god."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

"The fact that most people think in black and white is not realistic."

"I wanted to paint the way I think, not the way I see."

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it."

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

"Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist."

"I would rather cry in a Mercedes than laugh in a bus."

"When you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly."

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

"Lover, you should have come over."

"I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money."

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."

"The more I know the world, the more I realize I don't know anything."

"Politics and wallet, they're like a bad marriage."

"I have created a language within language."

"Every child is a genius; the problem is how to remain a genius once we grow up."

"Nature doesn't compete with art. It's indifferent to it."

"The public who view the exhibition are dying to know all these things and the artist dies to tell them."

"Mistakes are not by accident. They are by design."

"I never look at the walls of my home unless I'm hanging something."

"Bad artists copy, good artists steal, great artists borrow and repay."

"I simply paint objects as I see them."

"Sculpture is what you bump into when you're backing up to look at a painting."

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't."

"The chief enemy of creativity is self-doubt."

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, the cat."

"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

"Art is not beauty itself, but the search for it."