"I deal with painting as I deal..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

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

“When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”

“You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.”

“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.”

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”

“If you don't know what color to take, take black.”

“Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.”

“A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.”

“I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.”