When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

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

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography