In Art, Progress Lies Not

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.

In Art There Is Only One Thing That Counts: The Bit That Cannot Be Explained.

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.

Whatever Is Valuable In Painting Is Precisely What One Is Incapable Of Talking About.

In Art, Progress Lies Not In An Extension, But In A Knowledge Of Limitations.