When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.