Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Sex and art are the same thing.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

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

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

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

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

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

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.