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Cubism Art Quotes

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As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. (Josef Albers)

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. (Darby Bannard)

-Cubism and Abstract Art, The Younger Generation, 1936...
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.)

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism. (Alfred H. Barr Jr.)

-on Cubism...
Let them eat their fill of their square pears on their triangular tables! (Marc Chagall)

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)

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 Cubism, in the end what was important is what one wanted to do, the intention one had. And that one cannot paint. (Pablo Picasso)

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. (Pablo Picasso)

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own... (Joseph Plaskett)

-wife of Pablo Picasso...
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint. (Jacqueline Roque)

I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, cubism and expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual. (Clyfford Still)

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