Juan Gris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
-- Juan Gris

#Serendipity #Lost #Results
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
-- Juan Gris

#Emotion
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

#Dog #Hands #Pet
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
-- Juan Gris

#Trying #Abstract #Concrete
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

#Mind #Technique #States
CÃ©zanne 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

#Special #Bottles #Cylinders
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

#Exercise #Mind #Doe
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

#Special #Bottles #Cylinders
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
-- Juan Gris

#White #Black #Shadow

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
Or maybe Iâ€™d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely Iâ€™d been born without one.
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

Juan Gris famous quotes

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