"People don't realize what they have when..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“I do not seek. I find.”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).”

“No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.”

“Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.”

“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.”

“When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.”

“Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.”

“Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.”