You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer..

In art, practice always comes before theory..

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else..

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remai….

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a log….

Why assume that to look is to see?.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn..

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

Basically the French are all peasants..

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

I imitate everyone except myself..

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more….

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 b….

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

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child..

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our not….

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away..

The path to youth takes a lifetime..

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions..

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth..

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace..