Beginning Quote by Marcel Duchamp

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 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 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 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

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

— Mark Tobey

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 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 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 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 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

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

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