Pablo Picasso

"The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about" -Pablo Picasso."

"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!"

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

"To find is the thing."

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

"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."

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

"“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”"

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

"“Everything you can imagine is real.”"

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"There's nothing more difficult than a line."

"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."

"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."

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

"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso"

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."

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

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