Poetry Is To A Painting What Life

Poetry' Is What Distinguishes The Cubist Paintings Picasso And I Arrived At Intuitively From The Lifeless Sort Of Painting Those Who Followed Us Tried, With Such Unfortunate Results, To Arrive At Theoretically.

Emotion Should Not Be Rendered By An Excited Trembling; It Can Neither Be Added On Nor Be Imitated. It Is The Seed, The Work Is The Flower.

Nature Is A Mere Pretext For A Decorative Composition, Plus Sentiment. It Suggests Emotion, And I Translate That Emotion Into Art.

It Is The Limitation Of Means That Determines Style, Gives Rise To New Forms And Makes Creativity Possible.

It Is Not Sufficient That What One Paints Should Be Made Visible. It Must Be Made Tangible.