Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
Sex and art are the same thing.
I imitate everyone except myself.
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.