Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

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

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

There is no art without intention.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

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.

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.