The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.