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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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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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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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.
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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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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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