The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. |
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. |
The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. |
Action is the foundational key to all success. |
Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
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. |
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. |
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. |
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
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. |