When I was a child 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.

[I am] only a public entertainer, who has understood his time.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The secret of many of my deformations—which many people do not understand—is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

For a long time I limited myself to one color—as a form of discipline.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

It takes a very long time to become young.