Pablo Picasso

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

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

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

"Youth has no age."

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

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

"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."

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

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

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

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

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

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

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

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

"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."

"There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."

"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."

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."