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. (a statement given to the American 'Gelett Burgess', late in 1908, ed.)
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'The wild men of Paris' in The Architectural Record, May 1910; as quoted in "Braque", Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, London 1968, p. 34Georges Braque
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