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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
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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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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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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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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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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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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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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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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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Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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