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.
Source: In My Favorite Quotations, by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.
-- Pablo Picasso, (Oct 25 1881-1973), Spanish painter, sculptor; He was a seminal modern artist who, with Braque, founded the Cubist movement, e.g., Guernica, 1937.