Top 8 Quotes by Juan Gris

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

Serendipity, Lost, Results

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

Juan Gris

Mind, Technique, States

"'Chez les cubistes' (in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique')". "Juan Gris: His Life and Work". Book by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1946.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Juan Gris

Trying, Abstract, Concrete

Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of "L'Esprit Nouveau" # 5, February 1921.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

Juan Gris

Dog, Hands, Pet

"Washboat days". Book by Jeanine Warnod, p. 204, 1972.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Juan Gris

Emotion

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.

Juan Gris

Exercise, Mind, Doe

"On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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 a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

Juan Gris

Special, Bottles, Cylinders