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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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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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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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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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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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Art is made to trouble but 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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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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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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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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