Art Quote by Brad Holland

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

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

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

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

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

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

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

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…

— Pablo Picasso

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

— Hector Tobar

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