Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.