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.

Why assume that to look is to see?

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

To find is the thing.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

All Children are Artists

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.