At that time I was very friendly with Picasso. Our temperaments were very different, but we had the same idea. Later on it became clear, Picasso is Spanish and I am French; as everyone knows that mean a lot of differences, but during those days the differences did not count... We were living in Montmartre, we used to meet every day, we used to talk... In those years Picasso and I said things to each other that nobody will ever say again, that nobody could say any more... It was rather like a pair of climbers roped together.

p. 264 - Braque's quote referring to the early starting years of Cubism in Paris with Picasso, ca. 1907 -1910 - 'In conversation with Dora Vallier' (1954)