You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

All art is subversive.

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.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.