To Work From Nature Is To Improvise.

I Couldn't Portray A Women In All Her Natural Loveliness.. I Haven't The Skill. No One Has. I Must, Therefore, Create A New Sort Of Beauty, The Beauty That Appears To Me In Terms Of Volume Of Line, Of Mass, Of Weight, And Through That Beauty Interpret My Subjective Impression. Nature Is Mere A Pretext For Decorative Composition, Plus Sentiment. It Suggests Emotion, And I Translate That Emotion Into Art. I Want To Express The Absolute, Not Merely The Factitious Woman.

Writing Is Not Describing, Painting Is Not Depicting. Verisimilitude Is Merely An Illusion.

It Is Not Sufficient That What One Paints Should Be Made Visible. It Must Be Made Tangible.

The Painting Is Finished When The Idea Has Disappeared.

To Define A Thing Is To Substitute The Definition For The Thing Itself.