Frases de Juan Gris

“Una imagen que no se representa en mi mente es siempre un ejercicio técnico incompleto, porque el único propósito de cualquier imagen es lograr que se la represente.”

“Después de todo, la pintura se ha de hacer tal como uno es.”

“Trato de hacer concreto lo que es abstracto.”

“Pierdes el momento cuando sabes el resultado.”

“Siempre acaricio al perro con la mano izquierda, porque si me muerde me queda la derecha para pintar.”

“La pintura para mí es como un tejido, una pieza uniforme con un conjunto de hilos para la representación.”

“En el arte, como en la biología, no hay herencia si no hay ancestros. Los pintores heredan características adquiridas por sus ancestros.”

“Cubismo no es de forma, sino una estética, e incluso un estado de ánimo, por lo que es inevitablemente que esté conectado con cada manifestación del pensamiento contemporáneo. Es posible inventar una técnica, pero no se puede inventar toda la complejidad de un estado de ánimo.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”