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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.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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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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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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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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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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The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
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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 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.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
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I like the rule that corrects emotion.
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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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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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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.
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