Georges Braque Quotes About Cubism

Quotes about: Cubism

• What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.

  Georges Braque

  Expression, Space, Giving

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

• If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

  Georges Braque

  Thinking, Mets, Circumstances

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

• If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

  Georges Braque

  Order, Ideas, May

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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