Pablo Picasso

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

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

I do not seek, I find.

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

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

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

When I was a child, 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.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

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.

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

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

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets – and it's always in your face.

He who sees the human face correctly, sees it as a mask.