We don’t grow older, we grow riper

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money

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 only to wage war on that...

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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

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...

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It takes a long time to become young.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized. People just don’t have that much vision.

There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats

The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.

I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if...

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to...

To find is the thing.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars — it’s a luxury I can’t afford.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the...

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

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.

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.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

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.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child

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

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.