"I have never had time for the..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”

“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”

“I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.”

“And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.”

“The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.”

“To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”

“[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.”