What Cubism meant to Picasso

From “Picasso, a biography” by Patrick O’Brian:

In the first place it had nothing whatsoever to do with any theory, nor with absolute truth. Although on many subjects his reliably quoted words are often contradictory, seeing that they depended on his mood and on the person he was talking to.

Cubism was his visual language. When people of his time and even now try to put it in words, does it mean really the same thing? Should we ask the question about any non-conceptual art? Because art is not all about concepts. For some people maybe, but certainly not all. It’s a common obsession of those who don’t create to use words where an image should suffice as an answer.

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