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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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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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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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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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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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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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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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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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With age, art and life become one.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
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