Jean Metzinger Quote

We could not do it in the way he meant. But from the rue Lamarck to the rue Ravignan, the attempt [prétention] to imitate an orb on a vertical plane, or to indicate by a horizontal straight line the circular hole of a vase placed at the height of the eyes was considered as the artifice of an illusionistic trickery that belonged to another age.


Cubism was born [French:Le Cubisme était né] (1972)


We could not do it in the way he meant. But from the rue Lamarck to the rue Ravignan, the attempt [prétention] to imitate an orb on a vertical...

We could not do it in the way he meant. But from the rue Lamarck to the rue Ravignan, the attempt [prétention] to imitate an orb on a vertical...

We could not do it in the way he meant. But from the rue Lamarck to the rue Ravignan, the attempt [prétention] to imitate an orb on a vertical...

We could not do it in the way he meant. But from the rue Lamarck to the rue Ravignan, the attempt [prétention] to imitate an orb on a vertical...