I do not believe I have used radically different elements in the different manners I have used in my paintings. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to adopt them. I have never made trials nor experiments. Whenever I had something to say I have said it in the manner in which I have felt it ought to be said. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression

Paris 1923. As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923 - "Picasso Speaks," 1923