Cubism Quotes

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. - Anna Quindlen

Pablo Picasso drew pictures, but in a different way - cubism. - Julio Torres

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. - Harrison Birtwistle

I could not distinguish one modern work of art from another, but he taught me the difference between surrealism, cubism and abstract art. - Samuel Beckett

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 still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller. - Brad Holland

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. - Jacques Lipchitz

[In New York, still charmed by Post-Impressionism and puzzled by Cubism, Duchamp and others took on the art establishment as a way of holding up a mirror to modern society.] Cher Tzara... Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. - Man Ray