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“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”

Quote by Georges Braque

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Georges Braque, born on May 13, 1882, and died on August 31, 1963, was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. He co-founded the Cubist art movement with Picasso. Braque's paintings are known for their unique geometric shapes and color usage, which have had a profound impact on modern art. more

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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.”

Looks Has Beens Important Artist Interesting Path Taken Outcomes Canvas Routes Most Interesting

Author:Georges Braque

“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.”

Born Painting Bird Absurd Symbols Significance Canvas Symbolic Accord

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.”

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

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

Technique Sensitivity

Author:Georges Braque

“Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.”

Author:Georges Braque

“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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“Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.”

Born Millions Destined Impossibility

Book:The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic

“One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.”

Men Stills Light Eye Wonder Mystery Universal Educated Controlled Delicate Organs Sense Of Wonder Snail Educated Man Wonder And Mystery

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“If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.”

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”