In art, practice always comes before theory.

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.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

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

I do not evolve, I am.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!