Cubism Quote by 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

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 whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible…

— Chuck Jones

“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose…

— Peter Stanyer

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

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

Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But…

— Marvin Bell

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

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

— Toi Derricotte

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

— Theodore Robinson

“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.”

— Charles Sovek

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin