Juan Gris quotes

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

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“I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.”
-- Juan Gris

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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

Source : "Washboat days". Book by Jeanine Warnod, p. 204, 1972.

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“I try to make concrete that which is abstract.”
-- Juan Gris

Source : Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of "L'Esprit Nouveau" # 5, February 1921.

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“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

Source : "'Chez les cubistes' (in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique')". "Juan Gris: His Life and Work". Book by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1946.

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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.”
-- Juan Gris

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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.”
-- Juan Gris

Source : "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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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.”
-- Juan Gris

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“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

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“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 I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’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.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons