Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule, completely mistaken.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth.

We have imposed upon the pictures in the museums all our stupidities, our errors, the pretenses of our spirit. We have made poor ridiculous things of them. We cling to myths instead of sensing the inner life of the men who painted them. There ought to be an absolute dictatorship… a dictatorship of painters… the […]

Those who try to explain a picture are most of the time on the wrong track. Gertrude Stein announced to me joyously some time ago that she had at last understood what my picture represented: three musicians. It was a still life!

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he […]

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes – and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

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 sun.

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

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.

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.