"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."

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

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

"Wisdom principle 4 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 53."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

"Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking."

"Evolution is a tinkerer."