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One cannot always keep one's hat in hand; that is why the coat rack was invented. I found painting in order to hang my ideas on a nail: this allows me to change them and to avoid fixed ideas.Georges Braque
From the point of view of traditional pictorial conventions, Cubist compositions appear as incomprehensible distortions and fragmentations of the vision of reality and therefore are not "true" because they are not verisimilar. And thus, in this sense, the nail is to be considered the only "true" element because it is painted in a verisimilar way. The only one that creates, with its shadow, the illusion (even if limited) of a "normal" spatial depth.
But one can also say, on the contrary, that in the pictorial context the point of departure is not the object but space:
«Fragmentation served me to establish space and movement in space; I could introduce the object only after having created the space».
With this procedure, objects come into play only insofar as the painter allows it, respecting the demands of painting, because what matters most is not the represented thing but the way painting proceeds toward the object.
