Books Quote by Max Jacob

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear…

— Daniel B. Shapiro

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by…

— David Hockney

In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had…

— Gino Severini