"I imitate everyone except myself...." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.”

“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.”

“I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.”

“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”

“The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.”

“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”

“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”

“In literature imitations do not imitate.”

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”