"What a trade! Poor painters! They always..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.”

“When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”

“The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.”

“To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”