It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
To model an object is to possess it.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
All art is subversive.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.