Pablo Picasso

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

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

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

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

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

“When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso...”

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

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

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself...”

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

“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”

“You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”

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

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

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

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”