Art is a wound turned into light.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

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.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book

This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.

Music has always been part of my life.

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

An injury may prove a blessing.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.