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.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.