So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

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.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

All Children are Artists

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

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!