Georges Braque Quotes

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

Georges Braque

Art, Design, Serendipity

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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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Out of limitations, new forms emerge

Georges Braque

Form, Limitation

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Art is a wound turned into light.

Georges Braque

Art, Healing, Light

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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

Georges Braque

Mistake, Taken, Perspective

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

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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Georges Braque

Unexpected, Painting

"Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.

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

Georges Braque

Believe, Statistics, I Believe

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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.

Georges Braque

Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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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.

Georges Braque

Art, Reality, Poetry

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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.

Georges Braque

Art, Mistake, Taken

Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Georges Braque

Art, Ideas, Painting

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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.

Georges Braque

Believe, Discovery, Serenity

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

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

Georges Braque

Writing, Painting, Illusion

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

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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.

Georges Braque

Space, Movement, Way

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

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

Georges Braque

Painting, Disturbing

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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.

Georges Braque

Art, Skills, Weight

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

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With age, art and life become one.

Georges Braque

Art, Age, Mastery

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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.

Georges Braque

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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I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

Georges Braque

Taken, Artist, Interesting

"Cahiers d'art" by Dora Vallier, p. 14, 1954.

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To work from nature is to improvise.

Georges Braque

Improvisation

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

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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

Georges Braque

Believe, I Believe, Computer

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One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Georges Braque

Art, Work, Light

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

Georges Braque

Art, Different, Art Is

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

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One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Georges Braque

Want

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

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Born: May 13, 1882
Died: August 31, 1963
Occupation: Painter
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