"I put in my pictures everything I..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”

“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.”

“Music is the mirror of reality.”

“A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.”

“A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.”

“The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.”

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”