"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"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."

"There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."

"Youth has no age."

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"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."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."

"To find is the thing."

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

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

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."

"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

"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."

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."

"Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."

"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand."

"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."