“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

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

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It took me a lifetime.”

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

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

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”