“In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.”

— Georges Braque

Quote from the review 'Nord-Sud', December 1917
a remark of Braque's writings, he wrote during his long convalescence in the hospital, after he was seriously wounded in World War 1, in 1915
1908 - 1920

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French painter and sculptor 1882–1963

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Limitation of means determines style, engenders new form, and give impulses to creation.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
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The subject is not the object; it is a new unity, a lyricism which grows completely from the means.”

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“In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.”

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