It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

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.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.