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

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.