I Couldn't Portray A Woman

In A Painting, What Counts Is The Unexpected.

Poetry Is To A Painting What Life Is To Man.

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.

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.