"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be there to complicate my existence."

"I want to be a painter, and I want to be a poet, and I want to be a musician, and I want to be a writer, and I want to be an architect, and I want to be a philosopher, and I want to be a scientist, an…"

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

"I am against the word 'art.' It's a word that has been used to cover up a lot of nonsense."