I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso, Janie Cohen (1995). “Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne”, Robert Hull Fleming Museum
