Cubism Quotes
Cubism Quote of the day
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.
As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.
