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

A Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child.

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

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

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 Picasso.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

I am glad to say I have never considered painting simply as pleasure-giving art, a distraction; I have wanted, by drawing and by color since these are my weapons, to penetrate always further forward into the consciousness of the world and of men.