Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

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

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.