Picasso

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- All from Pablo Picasso, 1881 - 1973

About:

Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was born at Malaga, Spain on 25 Oct in 1881. Legend says that young Picasso once painted a picture so compelling that his artist father gathered up his own brushes and gave them to the son, never to paint again. He pursued, many would say mastered, a dizzying sequence of artistic styles and media. His painting, sculpture, pottery, and printmaking had a profound effect on the world of art, his comments along the way are fairly profound as well.