Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

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

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.