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Juan Gris Quotes

1887–1927 Spain

José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927)), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter who lived and worked in France almost all of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of Cubism.

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I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

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

The way to become a classic is by not resembling the classics in any way.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Juan Gris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.