"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.