Pablo Picasso

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

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

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

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

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

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

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

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.