• Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.

• The artist is a recepticle for the 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.

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

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

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

• Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

• Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

• When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

• Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

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

• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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