Georges Braque Quotes

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• Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Truth, Lying

  Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20

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• To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

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  Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

  Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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• There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

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  Art, Design, Serendipity

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• I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

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  Art, Skills, Weight

  Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”

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• Art is a wound turned into light.

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  Art, Healing, Light

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• The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

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  Thinking, Color, Goal

  "Artists on Art: from the XIV to the XX Century". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 423, 1972.

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

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  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

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  Believe, Discovery, Serenity

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

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  Painting, Disturbing

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• I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

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  Believe, Statistics, I Believe

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• 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.

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• Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

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  Art, Reality, Poetry

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• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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  Life, Truth, Reality

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• When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

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  Space, Movement, Way

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.

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• The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

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  Art, Ideas, Painting

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• Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

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  Art, Different, Art Is

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Christian Zervos, No. 10, 1935.

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• With age, art and life become one.

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  Art, Age, Mastery

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• I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

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  Personality, Revelations, Should

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

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  Art, Mean, Morality

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

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  Writing, Painting, Illusion

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

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  Art, Fate, Destiny

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• Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

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  Art, Trouble, Made

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• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

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  Believe, Discovery, Belief

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• 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.

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  Self, Perfect, Harmony

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• Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

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  Oval, Thanks, Horizontal

  "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co, p. 39, 1964.

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