Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.

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.