“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso”

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”

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

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“All art is erotic.”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

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

“Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

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

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

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

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

“I do not seek. I find.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“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.”