The Function Of Art Is

Art Is Made To Trouble But Science Reassures.

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.

To Explain Away The Mystery Of A Great Painting - If Such A Feat Were Possible - Would Do Irreparable Harm... If There Is No Mystery, Then There Is No Poetry, The Quality I Value Above All Else In Art.

Truth Exists; Only Lies Are Invented.

When Objects Shattered Into Fragments Appeared In My Painting About 1909, This For Me Was A Way Of Getting Closest To The Object... Fragmentation Helped Me To Establish Space And Movement In Space.