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Art Seems To Me To Be Above All A State Of Soul.

What I Mean By 'abstract' Is Something Which Comes To Life Spontaneously Through A Gamut Of Contrasts, Plastic At The Same Time As Psychic, And Pervades Both The Picture And The Eye Of The Spectator With Conceptions Of New And Unfamiliar Elements.

To Call Everything That Appears Illogical, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Or Chimera Would Be Practically To Admit Not Understanding Nature.

What A Genius, That Picasso. It Is A Pity He Doesn't Paint.

You Cannot Explain Me With "isms." They Are Very Bad For An Artist. What One Must Believe In Is Color.