"If everyone would paint, political re-education would..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”

“My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.”

“The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.”

“People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.”

“To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.”

“France lost a great novel last night.”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”

“The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.”

“I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.”