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.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.