The Spaniards who adore mounting a hill at full speed and coming down hill slowly, it is they who were made to create the painting of the twentieth century, and they did it, Picasso did it.

One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The automobile is the end of progress on the earth, it goes quicker but essentially the landscapes seen from an automobile are the same as the landscapes seen from a carriage, a train, a waggon, or in walking. But the earth seen from an airplane is something else. So the twentieth century is not the same as the nineteenth century and it is very interesting knowing that Picasso has never seen the earth from an airplane, that being of the twentieth century he inevitably knew that the earth is not the same as in the nineteenth century, he knew it, he made it, inevitably he made it different and what he made is a thing that now all the world can see. When I was in America I for the first time travelled pretty much all the time in an airplane and when I looked at the earth I saw all the lines of cubism made at a time when not any painter had ever gone up in an airplane. I saw there on the earth the mingling lines of Picasso, coming and going, developing and destroying themselves, I saw the simple solutions of Braque, I saw the wandering lines of Masson, yes I saw and once more I knew that a creator is contemporary, he understands what is contemporary when the contemporaries do not yet know it, but he is contemporary and as the twentieth century is a century which sees the earth as no one has ever seen it, the earth has a splendor that it never has had, and as everything destroys itself in the twentieth century and nothing continues, so then the twentieth century has a splendor which is its own and Picasso is of this century, he has that strange quality of an earth that one has never seen and of things destroyed as they have never been destroyed. So then Picasso has his splendor.

Yes. Thank you.

61 STILL-LIFE WITH GRAPES (1938)
In the Artist’s Studio

INDEX

(The numerals in italics refer to the figure numbers of illustrations)

African Art

America

American Revolution, the

Americans

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apostrophe, G.

Arab Culture

Ballet, Russian

Mercure

Parade

Barcelona

Boëtic, rue de la

Braque, Georges

Burlington, Magazine, the

Calligraphy, European

Oriental

Picasso’s

Ceret

Cézanne, Paul

Clichy, boulevard de

Cocteau, Jean

Courbet, Gustave

Creators

Cubism

Derain, André

Diaghilew

Don Quixote

Englishmen

Europeans

Exhibitions

Fontainebleau

France

French Art

Revolution, the

Frenchmen

Fry, Roger

Galileo

Genoa

Gosol

Greco, El

Greek intaglio

Grey, Lord

Gris, Juan

Hautecombe, Abbey of

Italy

Jacob, Max

Kahnweiler, Henry

Latins

London

Malaga

Masson, André

Matisse, Henri

Médrano, Cirque

Mercure

Michael Angelo

Models

Montmartre

Montparnasse

Montrouge

Oriental calligraphy

Orientals

Orta de Ebro

Palma de Mallorca

Parade

Paris

Petit Palais, Le

Photographs

Picasso, Pablo; titlepage,

His Calligraphy

His Childhood

His Influences

His Parents

His Periods :

Blue

Classic

Cubist

Green

Grey

Harlequin, see Rose Period

Large Still-Life

Large Women

Negro

Realist

Rose, First

Second

Toulouse-Lautrec

His Pictures:

Apollinaire, Portrait of Guillaume

Artist’s Son, Portrait of

“Au Bon Marché”

Bathers, The

Belle qui passe, La

Bottle of Wine, A

Bouteille de Marasquin, La

Danse, La

Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les

Deux Femmes Calligraphiées

Famille d’Arlequin au Singe, La

Femme au Fichu, La

Femme au Sourire,

Femme qui pleure, La

Fillette sur la Boule, La

Fruit and Glass

Girl with Bare Feet

Harlequin and Matches

Head of a Man

Head of a Woman

Homme au livre, L’

In the Café

Jeune Garçon au Cheval

Kahnweiler, Portrait of Henry

Landscapes

Lines and Stars

Little Girl with Basket of Flowers

“Ma jolie”

Madame Picasso, Portraits of

“Mercure,” Setting for

Mother and Child

Nudes

Pauvres, Les

Pauvres au bord de la Mer, Les

PortraitsTitlepage,

Source, La

Stein, Portrait of Gertrude

Still-lifes

Surrealist Drawing

Torso

Village near Tarragona

White Horse in the Ring, The

Woman at a Bar,

Woman with Guitar

Woman with Long Hair

Sculpture

Surrealism

Woodcuts

Picasso, Madame

Pointilism

Raphael

Raspail, boulevard

Ravignan, rue

Real objects in pictures

Renaissance furniture

Ripolin paints

Rome

Ruiz

Russian Ballet, the

Russians

Sagot

Salmon, André

Salon, The

Sancho Pansa

Sanscrit letters

Saracen art

Satie, Erik

Schoelcher, rue

Seurat, Georges

Shakespeare

Soirees de Paris

Sorgues

Spain

Spaniards

Spanish character, the

Stchoukine

Stein, Gertrude

Surréalists

Toklas, Alice B.

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Van Gogh, Vincent

War, The Great

War, The Spanish

Wilde, Oscar

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