The best Quotes by Pablo Picasso

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.

Self-Confidence

I would like to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Money Poverty

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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

Art

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Art Science

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Art

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

Art Photography Pictures

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

Art

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

Drawing

I'll always be a student of the brush, never its master.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Drawing

I'm telling you to look up instead of down at the paper you sketch on. Or rather, look in. I think you're going to look back one day and understand yourself in whole new way because of the choices you're making right now. And maybe this finds its way to a canvas.

Vittoria Contini in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Drawing

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

Jason Momoa

Drawing

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

Drawing

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Children & Childhood Fairytales

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!

Happiness Dancing Sun Rain

"You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept."
He gazed silently into space before continuing.
"And then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it."

He pondered a while. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else."
Again he paused for thought before adding, "That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

Michael Ende in Momo

Daily Routine

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

Small Things Daily Routine

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Youth Age Generations

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Photography

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between.

Karl Heiner

Life Photography

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Mirrors

I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

John Green in Paper Towns

Mirrors

This room is like a museum of old, useless crap... by which I mean every museum.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 4

Museums

If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you'd be left with an empty building.

Commander Rourke in Atlantis - The Lost Empire

Museums

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You

Self-Confidence

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust Money Friendship

Poverty is the stepmother of genius.

Josh Billings

Poverty

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

Money Poverty

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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