Quotes About Juan Gris

#1. I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

Jacques Lipchitz

#2. You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

Juan Gris

#3. There will never be another Frida.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. I had rather be right than be President.

Henry Clay

#5. 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

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

Juan Gris

#7. An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Billie Burke

#8. Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don't take a hard look at risk, it will take you.

Larry Hite

#9. A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Khalil Gibran

#10. Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

Simon Toyne

#12. I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Juan Gris

#13. Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

Heston Blumenthal

#14. The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

David Byrne

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Gardner Dozois

#18. You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Juan Gris

#19. I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Juan Gris