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Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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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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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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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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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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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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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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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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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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