Pablo Picasso

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

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

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

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

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

"It takes a very long time to become young."

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

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."

"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."