Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality It takes a long time to become young Action is the foundational key to all success Everything you can imagine is real The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls 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 Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law The hidden harmony is better than the obvious The artist is a receptacle for 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 Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working