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.

Everything you can imagine is real.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

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