"We laugh out loud when we think of all the novices who expiate their literal understanding of the remarks of a cubist…"

"A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God."

"To understand Cézanne is to foresee Cubism. Henceforth we are justified in saying that between this school and previo…"

"Unless we are to condemn all modern painting, we must regard cubism as legitimate, for it continues modern methods, a…"

"Let the picture imitate nothing; let it nakedly present its raison d'être. We should indeed be ungrateful were we to …"

"If we wished to relate the space of the [Cubist] painters to geometry, we should have to refer it to the non-Euclidea…"

"We do not mechanically connect the sensation of white with the idea of light, any more than we connect the sensation …"

"We are frankly amused to think that many a novice may perhaps pay for his too literal comprehension of the remarks of…"

"But we cannot enjoy in isolation; we wish to dazzle others with that which we daily snatch from the world of sense, a…"

"People crowded into our room, they shouted, they laughed, they got worked up, they protested, they luxuriated in all …"