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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It takes a long time to become young.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.