Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.