Juan Gris Quotes
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Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle out of a cylinder.
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You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.
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Cubism is moving around an object to seize several successive appearances, which fused in a single image, reconstitute it in time.
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Four years partly illness much perfection and rejoining beauty and perfection and then at the end there came a definite creation of something. This is what is to be measured.
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I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
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I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
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Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.
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I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
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I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
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The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
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No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.