The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?