"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso."

-Pablo Picasso