Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Action is the foundational key to all success.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

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.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.