What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Basically the French are all peasants.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.