"Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”

“If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.”

“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.”

“There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.”

“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”

“In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.”

“There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.”

“How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?”

“The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.”