Cubism Quotes

28 quotes by 21 authors

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. — Piet Mondrian
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning
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 not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.… — Juan Gris
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking. — Jasper Johns
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me… — Leon Trotsky
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism,… — Daniel Pinkwater
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… — Jacques Lipchitz
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. — Harrison Birtwistle
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. — Pablo Picasso
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,… — Pablo Picasso
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. — Tracey Emin
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… — Pablo Picasso
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
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,… — Georges Braque
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… — David Hockney
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals,… — Josef Albers
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… — Walter Darby Bannard
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… — Joseph Plaskett

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