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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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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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With age, art and life become one.
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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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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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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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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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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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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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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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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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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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