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. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. – Chuck Klosterman

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. – Chuck Klosterman

If you know the why, you can live any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

If you know the why, you can live any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. – Pablo Picasso

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. – Pablo Picasso

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. – Andy Warhol

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. – Andy Warhol

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho

I don’t think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great – I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. – David Lynch

I don’t think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great – I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. – David Lynch