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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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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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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 like the rule that corrects emotion.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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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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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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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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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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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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