There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

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

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

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.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.