Cubism Quote by David Hockney

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

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

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

— Max Jacob

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

In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an…

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Brad Holland

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

— Harrison Birtwistle

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

— Mark Tobey

In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had…

— Gino Severini

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

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good…

— Pablo Picasso