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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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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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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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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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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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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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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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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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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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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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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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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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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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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