Better 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

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in…

— Georges Braque

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 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 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

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

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no…

— Georges Braque

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

— Max Jacob

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But…

— Aristide Maillol