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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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