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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.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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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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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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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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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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