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By using a white paint applied to the canvas I make a napkin. But I am sure the white shape is something conceived before knowing what it was to become. This means that a certain transformation has taken place.. .In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

— Georges Braque

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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.

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)

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