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Cézanne showed us forms living in the reality of light; Picasso gives us a material report of their real life in the mind. He establishes a free, mobile perspective, in such a way that the shrewd mathematician Maurice Princet has deduced an entire geometry.

— Jean Metzinger Note sur la Peinture (1910)

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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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