I Do Not Believe In Objects. I

I Realized That One Cannot Reveal Oneself Without Mannerism, Without Some Evident Trace Of One's Personality. But All The Same One Should Not Go Too Far In That Direction.

Whatever Is In Common Is True; But Likeness Is False.

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.

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.

Reality Only Reveals Itself When It Is Illuminated By A Ray Of Poetry.