There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Basically the French are all peasants.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

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.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.