An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art

Dore Ashton's books include A Joseph Cornell Album, Picasso on Art, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, A Fable of Modern Art, The New York School, Noguchi East and West, and A Reading of Modern Art. She lives in New York City.

* Introduction by Dore Ashton I * Art and Eroticism * Art and Intellect * Art and Nature * Art and Truth * Understanding Art II. * A Picture Not Settled Beforehand * Intentions * Subjects in Painting * The Picture as a Sum of Destructions * First Vision Intact III. * A Painter Paints to Unload Himself * The Artists Personality * The Necessity of Work * Imitation and Imitators * Respect for Painters * Young Artists IV. * Cubism * Figurative, Nonfigurative, Abstract * Modern Art * Painting as Research V. * Beauty * Freedom * Genius * Love * Perfectionism * Poverty * Reality * Solitude * Success VI. * Color * Surprise and Accident in Art * Composition * Mural Painting * Style * Titles and Dating * Technique VII. * The Nude * Drawing * Landscape Painting * Photography * Portraits * Religious Art * Sculpture VIII. * Against Museums * Against Theories and Art Criticism * Art as Legend * Culture * Importance of Place * Poetry * Writing and Painting IX. * Picasso Explains (Interview with Jerome Seckler) * Picassos Statements of July 1937 * Message to Artists Congress * Open Letter to a Young Spanish Artist, May 1952 * Politics X. * Les Demoiselles dAvignon, 1907 * The Architects Table, 1912 * Guernica, 1937 * Still Life with a Bulls Head, 1938 * Bulls Head (Tte de Taureau), 1943 * War and Peace, 1952 * Minotaur XI. * Bonnard * Czanne * Gris * Matisse * Rousseau * Artists of the Past