The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
God is just another artist, like me.
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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