When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.