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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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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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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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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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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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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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