From Braque's birthday, 2006:
"The senses deform, the mind forms. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives."
— Georges Braque,
Reflections on Painting, 1917
Those who wish to follow Braque's advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:
Hint: See the following
construction of a tesseract:
construction of a tesseract:
From a page by Bryan Clair
For a different view
of the square and cube
see yesterday's entry
Abstraction and Faith.