Pablo Picasso

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Pablo Picasso

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.

Pablo Picasso

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Pablo Picasso

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

Pablo Picasso

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

Pablo Picasso

If I like it, I say it’s mine. If I don’t I say it’s a fake.

Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Pablo Picasso

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Pablo Picasso