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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.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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With age, art and life become one.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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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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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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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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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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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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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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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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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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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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The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
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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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