The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I do not evolve, I am.

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