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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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With age, art and life become one.
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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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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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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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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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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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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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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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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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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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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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