Pablo Picasso

"The eyes of an artist are like the eyes of a child."

"Youth has no age."

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

"Art is not made to decorate walls. It is war."

"Picasso is Spanish. I am also Spanish."

"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."

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

"One does not accumulate but eliminate."

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

"Art is not about thinking, it is about feeling."

"The more technique you have, the less you need it."

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

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe."

"The artist spends his time either inventing or remembering."

"Matisse makes a drawing and puts in a blue line for a tree, and another artist comes along and says now I can do it with a red line. The poor public, they see a red line and they say it is ugly."

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

"Bad artists copy, good artists imitate, great artists steal."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"The public who likes my painting at first hated it."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

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

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?"

"I found out painting the way I wanted to, but I was searching at the same time."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then Paris follows you all your life."

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

"Cruelty is not a moment. It is an eternal truth."

"The walls have ears, and they are about to cry."

"Every positive thing in your life represents a single act of rebellion."