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Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

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

Juan Gris

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.

Juan Gris

Juan Gris

Juan Gris

Born: March 23, 1887

Died: May 11, 1927 (aged 40)

Bio: José Victoriano González-Pérez, better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life.

Known for:

Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1912)
Still Life with Flowers (1912)
Bottles and Knife (1912)
Guitar and Pipe (1913)
Guitar on a Chair (1913)

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