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Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
Collagist
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Graphic Artist
Jewelry Designer
Lithographer
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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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Art is a wound turned into light.
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With age, art and life become one.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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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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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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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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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
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