Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

I do not believe in my death.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath