"I don't develop; I am...." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”

“I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.”

“They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”

“What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.”

“The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.”

“Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.”

“When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.”