"If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumsta…"

"The painting is finished when it has erased the idea."

"When we were so friendly with Picasso, there was a time when we had difficulty in recognizing our own pictures. Later…"

"If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas.. .One cannot esc…"

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

"Evidence exhausts the truth."

"I felt dissatisfied with traditional perspective. Merely a mechanical process, this perspective never conveys things …"

"What greatly attracted me – and it was the main line of advance of Cubism – was how to give material expression to th…"

"I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous.…"

"We [ Picasso and Braque], were living in Montmartre, we saw each other every day.. ..We were like two mountaineers ro…"