“We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.”

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.”

“A piece of space-dust falls on your head once every day… With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet’s past and future, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not”

“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”

“I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.”

“Imagination is real.”

“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.”

“My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”

“You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.”

“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”

“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”

“I do not evolve, I AM.”

“Art is theft.”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.”

“There's nothing more difficult than a line.”

“Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.”

“People who read are people who dream.”

“learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It takes a long time to become young”

“Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.”

“It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.”

“Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it”

“We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

“Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.”

“How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?”

“I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17”

“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”

“I don't develop; I am.”

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

“Nothing is worse than a brilliant beginning.”

“I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.”

“The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.”

“You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.”