My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

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.