“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“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.”

“It takes a long time to grow young.”

“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”

“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)”

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought”

“Art is a lie that reveals the truth.”

“Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.”

“My hand tells me what I’m thinking.”

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

“I'm not a developer; I am.”

“To find is the thing.”

“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.”

“The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.”

“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”