Pablo Picasso

Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

There is no art without intention.

To this day I’m really not sure if I was playing Ziggy [Stardust] or if Ziggy was exaggerated aspects of my own personality. A fair amount of psychological baggage was undoubtedly coming out through the character. Because I felt awkward and nervous and inadequate with myself, it felt easier to be somebody else.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.

Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.