Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Georges BraqueRead
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
Interpretation
Achieving harmony within oneself and with the world leads to true freedom and understanding.
The quote by Georges Braque emphasizes the importance of attaining harmony between oneself and the external world. When a person achieves this balance, they experience a profound sense of freedom and inner peace, allowing them to perceive life as a continuous revelation filled with endless possibilities. It suggests that true enlightenment comes from aligning oneself with the harmony of existence.
In practice
In a speech about finding inner peace during stressful times.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
With age, art and life become one.
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.
The opposite of compromise is character.
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.
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