Truth Exists; Only Lies Are Invented.

One Has To Arrive At A Specific Temperature, At Which The Objects Become Malleable.

The Function Of Art Is To Disturb. Science Reassures.

I Do Not Think My Painting Has Ever Been Revolutionary. It Was Not Directed Against Any Kind Of Painting. I Have Never Wanted To Prove That I Was Right And Someone Else Wrong.

I Couldn't Portray A Women In All Her Natural Loveliness.. I Haven't The Skill. No One Has. I Must, Therefore, Create A New Sort Of Beauty, The Beauty That Appears To Me In Terms Of Volume Of Line, Of Mass, Of Weight, And Through That Beauty Interpret My Subjective Impression. Nature Is Mere A Pretext For Decorative Composition, Plus Sentiment. It Suggests Emotion, And I Translate That Emotion Into Art. I Want To Express The Absolute, Not Merely The Factitious Woman.

Critics Should Help People See For Themselves; They Should Never Try To Define Things, Or Impose Their Own Explanations, Though I Admit That If... A Critic's Explanations Serve To Increase The General Obscurity, That's All To The Good.