Cubist Quotes

#1. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Robert Bateman

#2. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

#3. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Francis Picabia

#4. I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas A. Edison

#5. My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Diego Rivera

#6. Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

Georges Braque

#7. When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

Aristide Maillol

#8. We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

George Konrad

#9. You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Ondaatje

#10. Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.

Lily Koppel

#11. When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Pablo Picasso

#12. If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

D. Elton Trueblood

#13. I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Pythagoras

#15. More than once, his gaze drank in her red flannel pajamas, and she wished there was such a thing as sexy warm sleepwear. The giant pretzel had been invented so really, the science should be there.

T.S. Joyce

#16. Believe in the dream... Beware the danger.

Marie-Nicole Ryan

#17. Look at me," he said. "Keep looking only at me. There is no danger. You're perfectly safe. I've got you. I've always got you. You're mine. I will never let go. I will always protect you. You are my life now. Do you understand anything I'm saying?" Her

Thea Harrison

#18. I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

Malcolm Wilson

#19. Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

James Nasmyth

#20. Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Aaron Belz

#21. I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Alfred Bester

#22. She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried to pull the tough-girl mask over her sorrow and get on with her life. Instead she cried like adults learn to cry; silently and alone.

Ann Wertz Garvin

#23. My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Chaka Khan

#24. Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#25. In monasticism you don't get a trendy new Jesus, you get the same old Jesus everyone gets.

Daniel Homan