We Will Never Have Repose. The Present

Take The Birds Which You'll Have Noticed In So Many Of My Recent Paintings. I Never Thought Them Up, They Just Materialized Of Their Own Accord; They Were Born On The Canvas... It Is Absurd To Read Any Sort Of Symbolic Significance Into Them.

There Is Only One Valuable Thing In Art: The Thing You Cannot Explain.

A Painting Without Something Disturbing In It – What's That?.

In A Painting, What Counts Is The Unexpected.

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.