I am exhausted if I don't work.

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.

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.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

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

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder