Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.