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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

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.

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

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.

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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