Quotes About Creativity

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them.

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

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

Imagination is real.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.

Art is theft.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

I do not evolve, I AM.

People who read are people who dream.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.