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.
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
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.
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.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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.
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.
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 sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.
