Picasso on Art
A Selection of Views

* 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