We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

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

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

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.

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

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

Trust me.... You are important