“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.”

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.”

“I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as the only end of my life. Everything I do connected with it gives me intense pleasure. But still, I don't see why the whole world should be taken up with art, demand its credentials, and on that subject give free rein to its own stupidity. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.' -Picasso”

“and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.”

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh”

“Yet it was precisely these points which marked out van Gogh's own view of beauty, based on the people in his environment, who were admittedly not beautiful, but who embodied his idea of truth.”

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”