If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

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

Art is a wound turned into light.

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 a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

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

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

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

The lack of unconditional self-love leads many to sell themselves cheap.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Skilled leaders focus on "we," not "me."

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.