“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”

“The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.”

“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.”

“To find is the thing.”

“I'm not a developer; I am.”

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

“My hand tells me what I’m thinking.”

“Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.”

“Art is a lie that reveals the truth.”

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought”

“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”

“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”

“It takes a long time to grow young.”

“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.”

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.”

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

“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.”

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.”

“A piece of space-dust falls on your head once every day… With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet’s past and future, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not”

“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”

“I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.”

“Imagination is real.”

“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.”

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

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”

“You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.”

“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”

“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”

“I do not evolve, I AM.”

“Art is theft.”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.”

“There's nothing more difficult than a line.”

“Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.”

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

“I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.”

“People who read are people who dream.”