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We are frankly amused to think that many a novice may perhaps pay for his too literal comprehension of the remarks of one cubist, and his faith in the existence of an Absolute Truth, by painfully juxtaposing the six faces of a cube or the two ears of a model seen in profile.

— Jean Metzinger Du Cubisme (1912)

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Art belongs to the domain of the unreal and it is only when people try to make a reality of it that it falls apart.

It should be said that such an art would be neither more false nor more true than classical art.

My conviction was justified: art, that which lasts, is based on mathematics.

I sought refuge in my schoolbooks, among the flowers of Greek poetry, or the magical figures of geometry.

The house was filled with the piano and violin. I turned towards the art of painting.

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