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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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• 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

  Perspective, Painting, Disappear

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

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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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• 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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• To work from nature is to improvise.

  Georges Braque

  Improvisation

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

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• Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

  Georges Braque

  Communication, Talking, Painting

  "Les Problèmes de la Peinture". Interview with Gaston Diehl in Paris, 1945.

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

  Georges Braque

  Believe, Discovery, Belief

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

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• To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Definitions, Substitutes

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• It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

  Georges Braque

  Tangible, Paint, Made

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• The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.

  Georges Braque

  Years, Together, Mountain

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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.

  Georges Braque

  Self, Perfect, Harmony

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• Never join an organization.

  Georges Braque

  Organization, Clubs

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

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• It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Serendipity, Events

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

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• Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

  Georges Braque

  Life, Truth, Reality

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• It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

  Georges Braque

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Paint, Dishes

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• I like the rule that corrects emotion.

  Georges Braque

  Emotion

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• Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

  Georges Braque

  Bird, Painting, Canvas

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

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• Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.

  Georges Braque

  People, Trying, Obscurity

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

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• Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Trouble, Made

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• In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Lying, Progress

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Fate, Destiny

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• Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

  Georges Braque

  Truth, Common

  Cahiers d'art (edited by Christian Zervos), No. 10 (p. 96), 1935.

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• I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

  Georges Braque

  Personality, Signatures, 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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• 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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