To find is the thing.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

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.

He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.