Art comes instinctively to us, but it is so uncertain. I have in front of me photographs of all Picasso's best works. The mere I admire them the further I feel myself removed from all art, it seems so easy, so limited! We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing.

p. 168: in a letter to his future wife Agnes Magruder (Mougouch), 7 Mai 1941 - from 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009)