"In a painting, what counts is the unexpected."

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Source : "Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.

Georges Braque

#Unexpected Quotes #Painting Quotes

“You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.”
“I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Jul 24, 2013
“Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.”

Source : 1986 To reporters after Argentina's WorldCup defeat of England in which he scored a goal with his hand, 22 Jun.
“It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.”
“Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.”
“If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.”
“She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”
“Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.”

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