The Function Of Art Is To Disturb.

Perspective Starts From One Viewpoint And Never Gets Away From It. But The Viewpoint Is Quite Unimportant. It Is Though Someone Were To Draw Profiles All His Life, Leading People To Think That A Man Has Only One Eye.

Writing Is Not Describing, Painting Is Not Depicting. Verisimilitude Is Merely An Illusion.

The Starting Point Of A Picture For Any Painter Is A Matter Of Colors And Form...i Believe That The Poetry Of Art - If That Is What One May Call It - Is A Matter Of Animating These Forms And Colors.

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.

A Painting Without Something Disturbing In It – What's That?.