Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.