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Truth exists, only lies are invented.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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It is the act of painting, not the finished painting.
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The painting is finished when it has erased the idea.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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In art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can't explain.
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In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.
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In art progress does not consist in extension, but in the knowledge of limits.
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Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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Limitation of means determines style, engenders new form, and give impulses to creation.
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The subject is not the object; it is a new unity, a lyricism which grows completely from the means.
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Few people can say: I am here. They look for themselves in the past and see themselves in the future.
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It is the limitation of means that determine style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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I started above all by producing still-lives because in nature there is a tactile space, I would say almost manual.
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We [Picasso and Braque], were living in Montmartre, we saw each other every day.... We were like two mountaineers roped together.
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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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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our [Braque & Picasso's, in the start of Cubism] conception of space.
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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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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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Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Trouillebert's work bears a likeness to that of Corot, but they have nothing in common.
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One day I noticed that I could go on working art my 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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Tactile space separates us from objects, as opposed to visual space, which separates objects from one another. I have spent my life trying to paint the former kind.
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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 arts which achieve their effect through purity have never been arts that were good for everything. Greek sculpture (among others) with its decadence, teaches us this.
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To avoid a projection towards infinity 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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One must beware of a formula good for everything, that will serve to interpret the other arts as well as reality, and that instead of creating will only produce a style, or rather a stylization.
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Born:
May 13, 1882
Died:
August 31, 1963
(aged 81)
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