It took me a lifetime.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.