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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.

— Georges Braque

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Braque admired Corot and frequently used Corot's young country-ladies as models, for instance in his painting 'Souvenirs de Corot' he made in 1922/23

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Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917–52 ['Day and Night: Notebooks (1952)

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.

In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our [Braque & Picasso's, in the start of Cubism] conception of space.

Braque (1968)

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.

In conversation with Dora Vallier (1954)

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