creativity Quotes

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Everything you can imagine is real.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, youll be a general; if you become a monk, youll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.