Juan Gris quotes
Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor, renowned for his significant contributions to the Cubist movement. His distinctive style is marked by bold colors and geometric forms. He influenced modern art by refining and expanding the language of Cubism. Here are 9 of his quotes:
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
No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.
Juan Gris
Juan Gris
Occupation: Spanish Artist
Born: March 23, 1887
Died: May 11, 1927
Quotes count: 9
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