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Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.

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Georges Braque

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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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Art, Truth, Lying, Lies, Exists

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.

Art, Explain, Harm, Irreparable Harm, Poetry, Quality

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 whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. . . . . . Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

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