"It took me four years to paint..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“I imitate everyone except myself.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

“Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.”

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

“If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”