Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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.

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

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

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”

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

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

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“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 be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

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

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”

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

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

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

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

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

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

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

“There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

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

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

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”

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

“I do not seek. I find.”

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

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”

“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

“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.”

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”

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

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

“Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

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

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

“All art is erotic.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

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

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”