Everything you can imagine is real.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I do not seek. I find.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

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

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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 become young.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Youth has no age.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.