"A painter paints to unload himself of..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”

“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.”

“Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.”

“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.”

“... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.”

“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”

“Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.”