Cubism Quote by Jasper Johns

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

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

— Max Jacob

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 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

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 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 early days of cubism, the simultaneous presentation of many perspectives of the human face was subversive. But at a certain point, one…

— Sherry Turkle

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Looking and seeing are two different things.

— John Paul Caponigro