Jean Metzinger - Reality Quotes

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The excuse that the painters were documenting reality was becoming ridiculous. Photographers and film makers went far beyond them. Already it could be said that a good portrait led one to think about the painter not the model.

Jean Metzinger

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.

Jean Metzinger

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