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.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.

I do not seek. I find.

It takes a long time to become young.

Youth has no age.

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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

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

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.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

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

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.

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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