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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

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Georges Braque

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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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

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To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm. . . If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

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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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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

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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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