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“The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.” quote by Georges Braque — Download Open image

“The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.”

Georges Braque

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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

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

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