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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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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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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The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
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With age, art and life become one.
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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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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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Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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