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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.
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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
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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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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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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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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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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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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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When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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