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| Pablo Picasso Woman with Fan 1907 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Dance of the Veils 1907 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
To find oneself jolted to an extreme, lit by the unreal, with, in a corner of oneself, fragments of the real world.
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| Pablo Picasso Bathing 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Dryad 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
A kind of constant displacement of the normal level of reality.
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| Pablo Picasso Composition with Skull 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Black Bottle and Green Bowl 1908 canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
The unconscious has no power to crystallize, to any degree whatsoever, the fixed unbroken point of automatism.
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| Pablo Picasso Farm Woman, half-length 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Farm Woman, full-length 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Pitcher and Bowls 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Pot, Glass and Book 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Are you acquainted with that sensitivity hanging in mid-air, that kind of vitality terrifying and split in two, that indispensable point of cohesion to which being no longer rises, that place of menace, that place that hurls you to the ground?
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| Pablo Picasso Friendship 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Three Women 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Seated Woman 1908 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
It's so hard not to exist any more, not to be something any more. Real suffering is to feel the movement of thought within oneself. But when thought is a fixed point, it is certainly not a suffering.
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| Pablo Picasso Bowls of Fruit 1909 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pablo Picasso Brick factory at Tertosa 1909 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Lines of prose-poetry by Antonin Artaud, originally published in Les Pèse-nerfs of 1925, translated into English by Mary Ann Caws and Patricia Terry (2004)