Pablo Picasso

"Art allows you to express what words cannot."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"Taste is a result of art education, which unfortunately is not very good in this country."

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

"Colors are my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

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

"It takes a long time to become young."

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. You become technically good unconsciously."

"To know what you want to draw, you have to begin drawing."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"I don't wait for the perfect moment. I create it with my hands."

"Picasso had a saying that he couldn't understand people who only liked paintings and didn't understand artists."

"When art critics get together they talk about Form, Line, and Colour. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

"Sculpture is the best comment that one human being can make about another."

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."

"I wanted to paint the way I thought, not the way I saw."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."