But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Remb….

Action is the foundation of all success..

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me..

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; n….

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas..

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting..

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules..

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself..

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another..

I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on ….

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue..

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too..

It takes a long time to become young..

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

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries..

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are….

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg..

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg..