+ Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

+ Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

+ The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

+ If there is something to steal, I steal it!.

+ Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.

+ When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

+ People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

+ Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

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

+ I don't say everything, but I paint everything.