Pablo Picasso

"Most people don't use their hands. Artists do."

"Great discoveries are made by the ones who see beyond."

"The world is a stage and we are merely players seeking our role."

"One must always have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

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

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

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"Creativity takes courage."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

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

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

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

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

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

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"The worst evil is to abandon the wounded on the battlefield."

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

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

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

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

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place."

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

"Technique is important, but heart is everything."

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

"The purpose of the artist is to dream, and dreaming is how art is born."

"If you do not fail, you are not even trying."

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."