Pablo Picasso

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

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

“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”

“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.”

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

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

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”