Art is a lie that leads us to the truth.
Every child is an artist. It's a challenge to remain an artist when you grow up.
I do not paint the things I see, I paint what I think.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man who sells what he paints.
A long, long time is needed to be young.
If it is known exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
If there were only one truth, it wouldn't be possible to do 100 variations on the same theme.
The painting is stronger than me, it always gets me to do what it wants.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
One day, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you will be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." However, I became a painter and now I am Picasso.
I don't work according to Nature, but in front and together with it. An artist must observe Nature, but never confuse it with the art.
I do not say everything, but I paint everything.
I like to live poor... but with a lot of money.
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
Genius is personality with two pennies of talent.
The path of youth takes a whole life.
