".. since then I have found consolation in William Blake. 'Without Contraries is no progression', he says in his Proverbs of Hell. And Charles Baudelaire's idea that 'variety is an essential condition of life' seems to me to be in perfect accord with my aspirations and with my intention, as a Futurist painter, to put 'life' in the place occupied by 'reasoning' in the art of the Cubist period."