It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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!

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.