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• Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression… — Piet Mondrian
• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — 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… — Guillaume Apollinaire
• Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation… — Juan Gris
• Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act… — Jasper Johns
• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky
• The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater
• Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different;… — 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,… — Pablo Picasso
• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard

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