Art Is Meant To Disturb. Science Reassures.

If We Had Never Met Picasso, Would Cubism Have Been What It Is? I Think Not. The Meeting With Picasso Was A Circumstance In Our Lives.

What Greatly Attracted Me - And It Was The Main Line Of Advance Of Cubism - Was How To Give Material Expression To This New Space Of Which I Had An Inkling. So I Began To Paint Chiefly Still Lifes, Because In Nature There Is A Tactile, I Would Almost Say A Manual Space... That Was The Earliest Cubist Painting - The Quest For Space.

Take The Birds Which You'll Have Noticed In So Many Of My Recent Paintings. I Never Thought Them Up, They Just Materialized Of Their Own Accord; They Were Born On The Canvas... It Is Absurd To Read Any Sort Of Symbolic Significance Into Them.

There Is Only One Valuable Thing In Art: The Thing You Cannot Explain.

I Am Much More Interested In Achieving Unison With Nature Than In Copying It.