"To me there is no past or..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.”

“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”

“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”

“Beauty without expression is boring.”

“The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

“Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.”

“Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.”

“You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”