I’m a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn’t like to travel.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

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 be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.