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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Critics should help people see for themselves they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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