Famous Quotes

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

Pablo Picasso on Mom

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• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

  Jessica Lange on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

  Aristotle on Mom

More quotes by Pablo Picasso

• "It takes a long time to become young."

• "Youth has no age."

• "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

• "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

• "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."