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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.
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Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.
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Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.
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When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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