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

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

- Juan Gris

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

- Juan Gris

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

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

- 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-thread…

- 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…

- 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 thou…

- Juan Gris