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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.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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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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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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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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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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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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With age, art and life become one.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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