"The period during the First World War was a very exciting time in Paris, with artists, philosophers, and poets contin…"

"I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day …"

"By the early 1920s I knew that I needed to move beyond the simple cubist vocabulary I had learned and to find a new c…"

"I also found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imagi…"

"Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist."

"Imagination is a very precise thing, you know — it is not fantasy. Remember, the other day I gave you the example of …"

"For me sculpture is divinity. This is the only answer that I could find for myself. Art is man's distinctly human way…"

"Cubism is not a formula, it is not a school. Cubism is a philosophy, a point of view in the universe. It is like stan…"

"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer —…"

"Jacques Lipchitz and Marc Chagall were among the European artists who settled in New York City during the war. Just b…"