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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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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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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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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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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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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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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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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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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 a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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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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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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