What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

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.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.