Certain Quote by Jacques Lipchitz

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 fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many…

— Robert Lyn Nelson

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

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

— David Hockney

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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