„I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.“

— Pablo Picasso

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„I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.“
— Pablo Picasso
„The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.“
— Paul Valéry