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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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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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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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With age, art and life become one.
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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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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 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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Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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