I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

... if sin had a taste she’d found it.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.