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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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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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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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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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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 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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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With age, art and life become one.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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