Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.

Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Paul Johnson

There are no inevitabilities in history

Paul Brunton

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Paul Cezanne

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Paul Cezanne

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Oscar Wilde

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Oscar Wilde

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Ivan Turgenev

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

Isak Dinesen

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Iris Murdoch

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Iris Murdoch

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Iris Murdoch

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Imogen Cunningham

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Ilka Chase

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

The only people who never fail are those who never try

Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Hyman Rickover

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Huston Smith

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.