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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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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
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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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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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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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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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