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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Georges Braque

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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With age, art and life become one.
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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
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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 do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
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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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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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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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When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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