Abstraction Quote by Alfred H. Barr, Jr

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as…

— Octavio Paz

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It…

— David Hockney

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float…

— Joseph Plaskett

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary…

— Juan Gris

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down…

— Pablo Picasso

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.

— Brad Holland

Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings.…

— Alex Katz

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in…

— Georges Braque

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…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and…

— Max Jacob

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But…

— Aristide Maillol