"A painting only lives in the eye..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.”

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

“I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.”

“I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.”

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

“As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.”

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

“You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.”

“What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying”