There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

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.