"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
— Pablo Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"
— Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
— Pablo Picasso

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
— Pablo Picasso

"If I don't have red, I use blue."
— Picasso

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
— Pablo Picasso

"Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding."
— Pablo Picasso

""Give me a museum and I'll fill it.""
— Pablo Picasso

"Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again."
— Willem De Kooning

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
— Paul Klee

"Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment."
— Claude Monet

""Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."
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— Wassily Kandinsky (Concerning the Spiritual in Art)

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Creativity takes courage. "
— Henri Matisse

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
— Salvador Dalí