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. New means, new subjects. The subject is not the object; it is a new unity, a lyricism which grows completely from the means. p. 423 - short quotes by Georges Braque on 'Means' - Paris, 1917
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Georges Braque was a 19th-century French painter and sculptor. Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Read more on Wikipedia →