[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

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

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

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!

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.