Pablo Picasso — "Everything you can imagine is real."

"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."

"One does not paint what one sees, one paints what one feels."

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a mask? Or is it a face that has been lived?"

"Art is never chaste. It should be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never exposed to them. One must be well prepared to approach it."

"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."