Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Action is the foundational key to all success.