"In 1924 and 1925, Gris spent much of his time and energy in lecturing and in writing down his conception of what painting should be and why...he had made a pertinent statement about his basic philosophy as an artist: "I consider that the architectural element in painting is mathematics, the abstract side; I want to humanize it. Cezanne turns a bottle into a cylinder, but I begin with a cylinder and create an individual of a special type: I make a bottle-a particular bottle- out of a cylinder."

Juan Gris