When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!

You can't run a without taking risks.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.