"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
"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 a lie that makes us realize the truth."
"I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries."
"Everything is miraculous. It is miraculous that one does not melt in one's bath."
"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
"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."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."
"Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. Heís convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt."
"In Dore Ashton Picasso on Art (1972) ‘Two statements by Picasso’ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."