Pablo Picasso

"The essential in art is not the ideas but the interpretation of ideas."

"I have things in my head which are not like what anybody taught me."

"People seize on the world-view of poets as if we were all saints."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."

"A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their intelligence and sensitivity, transform a yellow spot into sun."

"Forget all rules, forget all limitations."

"Technique is something you can always teach yourself, but you cannot teach yourself to have ideas."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"I do not see why we are always asking for the same things."

"The artist spends his life in a corner with his eyes fixed on eternity."

"The more I work, the more I believe in the power of simplicity."

"A picture is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being made it changes as one's thoughts change."

"Art never improves; it only changes, and whoever wants security might as well stay with their mother."

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

"When I was a child, my mother said I was going to be a general. Instead I became a painter."

"The eye is a sum total of all that you have seen."

"It is my misfortune to live in an era when the technical and creative aspects of art have become separated."

"A single human being has a supreme importance."

"Every stroke tells a story."

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"The idea of searching for truth through painting came from the outside world."

"I have always believed that the chief beauty of a book must lie in its literary style."

"A day without creation is a day wasted."

"What matters is your state of mind when you create."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"I have made a great discovery: I have found that I can say things with color."

"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats."

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."