Pablo Picasso

I don't seek, I find.

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

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he needs to have feelings.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

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

The older you get, the stronger the wind of life. You travel and are buffeted by the elements but are not disturbed by them anymore.

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

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

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.

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.

It is personality with a pencil that is needed, not a mere technique.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

An artist must eat. So I do a little teaching, but I am not very fond of teaching.

The artist is a liar who convinces us of the truth.

To me, the thing that art does is educate the mind and the eye to see things as they really are.

I see for others.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius precocity.

I who live by my imagination cannot help having faith in it.