In a 1932 interview published in the French newspaper L’Intransigeant, Picasso said that painting was like keeping a diary. His paintings, deeply rooted in the present, captured the vibrations in the air and drew inspiration from what was stirring deep within him at the moment of creation. The highly personal nature of Picasso’s art allowed him to record his passing emotions in the abstracted subject matter; his subjects were reborn into simple lines, dancing textures, and colors that captured their essence. Picasso reportedly said that if he painted a wild horse, the horse itself might not be apparent, but its essence, its wildness would be at the painting’s center. The emotion and the pared-down essentialism in Picasso’s deconstructed art reveal new facets of his subject matter.