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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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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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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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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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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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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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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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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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