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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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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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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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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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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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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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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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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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