Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.