You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. – Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. – Pablo Picasso
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays