Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

I don't seek, I find.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

All Children are Artists