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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Georges Braque

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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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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Art is a wound turned into light.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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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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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.
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