"I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings wi…"

"[how anyone could] remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without bei…"

"..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit …"

"[Picasso is guilty of] having dragged French painting into the most dismal 'impasse' and of having led it into in des…"

"The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had sugge…"

"[with painting] directly tube against canvas, one soon becomes too slick.. .I regretfully realized that my compositio…"

"The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of i…"

"My father was a violinist, my mother a pianist. I was born into a world of music...The practicing of my father's pupi…"

"I always look at everything with the eyes of a child. I feel enthusiastic for things today fort he same reasons as I …"

"For me, the discovery of the outside-world, dates from my acquisition of a bicycle [c. 1892]. I spent whole days on t…"