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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

Georges Braque

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
Collagist
Designer
Draftsperson
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Jewelry Designer
Lithographer
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Scenographer
Sculptor
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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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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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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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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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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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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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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