Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

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

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

I do not evolve, I am.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.