"I don't work from nature, I work..." - 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.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”

“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

“I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.”

“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.”