"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."

"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."

"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."