Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.