Artist Quote by Francis Picabia

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

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…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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 like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you…

— Jacques Lipchitz

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris…

— Marc Chagall

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the…

— Anna Quindlen

What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this…

— Georges Braque

Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements…

— Gino Severini

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

— Mary Rakow

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 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

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in…

— Pablo Picasso