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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Everything you can imagine is real.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It takes a long time to become young.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.