Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

The more technique there is, the less there is

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.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.