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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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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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With age, art and life become one.
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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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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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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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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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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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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