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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
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What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.
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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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I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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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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Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
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It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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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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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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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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