Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken..

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is onl….

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war..

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money..

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself..

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy..

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist.….

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what o….

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth..

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in t….

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working..

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall..

Basically the French are all peasants..

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding..

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others..

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them..

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays..

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