“People crowded into our room, they shouted, they laughed, they got worked up, they protested, they luxuriated in all kinds of utterances.”

—  Albert Gleizes

Quote of Gleizes, 1911, on the Paris' 'Salon d'Automne' exhibition of 1911; as cited by Anne Ganteführer-Trier, in 'Cubism, Taschen, 2004
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