“ The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. „

“ I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. „

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

“ God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. „

“ Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs. „

“ Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. „

“ People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age. „

“ Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility „

“ Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. „

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

“ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. „

“ 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 that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. „

“ Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. „

“ Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. „

“ Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children „

“ Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. „

“ If there is something to steal, I steal it!. „

“ Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. „

“ When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. „

“ I don't say everything, but I paint everything. „

“ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. „