in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more, with a method linked only to my thought. Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.