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 end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.