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Georges Braque

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    Georges Braque

    A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

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    Art is a wound turned into light.

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    Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

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    Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

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    Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

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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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    Georges Braque

    Evidence exhausts the truth.

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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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    I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

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    I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

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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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    I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

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    I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

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    I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

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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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    If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

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    I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

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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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    I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

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    I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

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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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    In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

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    In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

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    I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

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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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    It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

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    It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

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    I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

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    La ve  rite   existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

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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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    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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    Never join an organization.

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    Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

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    One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

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    One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

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    Out of limitations, new forms emerge

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    Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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    Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

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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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    Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

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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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    Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

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    Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

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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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    Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

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    Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

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    The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

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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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    The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

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    There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.