"Cubism does not want a banal description of the psychological meaning of bodies and events from a specific external standpoint, rather it wants life itself! The cubist artist is in the middle of things, they surround him, their abundance brings him happiness, their never-resting, ever-moving, puzzling, autonomous life is like an intoxication. No positivistic result, no explanation, no moral and no application or lesson- rather glorification, admiration, adoration."
Adolf Behne, 'Biologie and Kubismus', Der Sturm 6:11-12 Sept. 1915.
Excerpted from 'Anything But Literal: Sigfried Gideon and the reception of Cubism in Germany', Detlef Mertins, compiled in 'Modernity Unbound: Other Histories of Architectural Modernity', 2011.
