What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an i….

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better..

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible..

Truth exists; only lies are invented..

I like the rule that corrects emotion..

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation hel….

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry..

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress..

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships..

Art is a wound turned into light..

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain..

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is n….

Out of limitations, new forms emerge.

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mist….

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of….

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared..

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?..

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about..

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships..

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beaut….

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion..