"In art, practice always comes before theory...." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”

“The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.”

“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.”

“Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.”

“The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.”