"I hate that aesthetic game of the..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”

“The path to youth takes a lifetime.”

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”

“In art, the best is good enough.”

“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.”

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

“A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.”

“Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.”

“I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.”