Cubism Quotes - Page 2

• 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 problem of cubism.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Years, Fifty

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• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  Pablo Picasso

  Success, Dangerous, Copies

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• 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

  Want, Way, Objects

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, 1996.

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• Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

  David Hockney

  Confused, Years, Perspective

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• People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Age, Disease

  "Picasso" by Ingo F. Walther, (p. 67), 1996.

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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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• If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

  Georges Braque

  Order, Ideas, May

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.

  Mark Tobey

  Sex, Confused, Two

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 103, 1983.

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• Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, People, Bed

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• 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 peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

  David Hockney

  Christian, Art, Messages

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

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Gone, Way

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• The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Cezanne, Tradition, Form

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• Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Criticism, Analysis

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.31, Arcade Publishing

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• I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Style, Treated

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• 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 avenues that haven't been explored yet.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Thinking, Trying, Different

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• As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

  St. Lucia

  Teacher, Art, Style

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Europe

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings. And still life is a perfect form for that. By the mid-'50s, I sort of dropped the still life. The large picture was a way of getting around them, too. The abstract expressionists were also into the large form because it was a way of getting around Matisse and Picasso. Picasso can't paint big paintings. Matisse didn't bother after a certain point.

  Alex Katz

  Drawing, Perfect, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
  Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

  Max Jacob

  Mean, Reality, Doe

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• The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Dog, Degenerates, Mama

  Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Acoustics, Form

  "Laws of Media: The New Science " by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 55), 1988.

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• I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

  Leonard Lauder

  Talk To Me, Happens

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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