"When I work I relax; doing nothing..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.”

“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”

“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.”

“I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

“The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.”

“One of the things that I do to relax at the end of the day is I read recipes.”

“Reading... a vacation for the mind.”