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.

Quote by Jacques Lipchitz

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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you...

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented...

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented...

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the...

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the...

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the...

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and...

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and...

Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where...

Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where...

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet...

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet...

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,...

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,...

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come...

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come...

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how...

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how...