Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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.

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

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.