Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names..

I have had no true friends, only lovers..

I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the s….

I do not evolve, I am..

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it..

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is..

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be..

I'm not a developer; I am..

If you don't know what color to take, take black..

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance..

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age"….

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us..

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all..

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else..

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints..

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adop….

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dan….

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness..

For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing..