You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.