“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.”

— Georges Braque

Source: 1946 - 1963, In conversation with Dora Vallier' (1954), p. 265

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French painter and sculptor 1882–1963

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