The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.