Pablo Picasso

"The idea of searching for truth through form and color inspired all my work."

"I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child."

"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. I make a drawing, and I make another kind of drawing at all."

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"The painter passes through states of fullness and emptiness."

"I wish I could use green the way Matisse does, but I can't."

"Art is not meant to decorate walls. It is war against brutality and darkness."

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

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

"The piece of art that truly interests me is something nobody has done yet."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training."

"The world is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Every positive thing in your life represents a single act of defeat against the forces of mediocrity."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something."

"Errors are the portals of discovery."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"The bad painters imitate, the good painters steal."

"Technique is important, but not as much as conviction."

"I like to walk around the canvas, work from all sides, and come to it from a different angle."

"Anybody can build the ark, Michelangelo is somebody."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"In drawing, you must have a very sharp perception. A line has its own eloquence."

"If they want to criticize, I'm confident in my work and my thoughts."

"Every act of rebellion has a universal quality to it."

"I could paint a perfect imitation of nature and that would bore me to tears."

"Genius is childhood recaptured at will."