Juan Gris
Quotations

"Those who believe in abstract painting seem to me like weavers who think they can produce a material with threads running in one direction only and nothing to hold them together. When you have no plastic intention [i.e., a visual aesthetic] how can you control and make sense of your representational liberties? And when you are not concerned with reality how can you control and make sense of your plastic liberties?"

 

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