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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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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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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Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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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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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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