You see, I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

Quote from The Power of Mystery (7 December 1957), a London Observer interview with John Richardson, as quoted in Braque : The Late Works (1997), by John Golding, Introduction, p. 10