Pablo Picasso

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

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

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

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“Youth has no age.”

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

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

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

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”