“An example: if I compose a picture using as objects a scrap of bark, a scrap of butterfly wing and a purely imaginary form, you probably won't recognise the bark, or the butterfly wing, and you'll say: 'What does this stand for? It is an abstract picture. No it's a representational picture'... There is no such thing as 'abstract', or 'concrete' either. There is a good picture and a bad picture. There is the picture that moves you and the picture that leaves you cold... A picture has a value in itself, like a musical score, like a poem.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Quoted in Picasso on Art (1988), ed. Dore Ashton.
Attributed from posthumous publications

Source: The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist http://errolmorris.com/content/lecture/theantipost.html

Source: Humble the Poet, UnLearn: 101 Simple Truths For A Better Life

To his daughter
The Smoking Gun videos (2004)

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

p, 125
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

[Pictures Called Products Of Art., The Record, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Dwight_Dash_(1924-2002)_in_The_Record_of_Hackensack,_New_Jersey_on_5_November_1959.png, November 5, 1959, Harvey Dwight Dash]
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