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.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

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

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

I imitate everyone except myself.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.