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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art Zusammenfassung An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art Inhaltsverzeichnis * 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