Georges Braque Quotes - Page 3

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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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• I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

  Georges Braque

  Thinking, Painting, Kind

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

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

  Georges Braque

  Oval, Thanks, Horizontal

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

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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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• In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

  Georges Braque

  Art, One Thing, Bits

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• I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

  Georges Braque

  Beauty, Skills, Natural

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

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• You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

  Georges Braque

  Yellow, Doe, Way

  "Cahiers d'art" by Dora Vallier, p. 16, 1954.

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• 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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• We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

  Georges Braque

  Perpetual, Repose

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• The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Believe, Color

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• Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

  Georges Braque

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mean, Morality

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

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• One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Reality, Creating

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• Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

  Georges Braque

  Flower, Emotion, Excited

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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.

  Georges Braque

  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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• 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.

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• Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Science, Technology

  Le Jour et la Nuit: Cahiers 1917 - 52 (1952)

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• Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

  Georges Braque

  Form, Colour

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, 1968, p. 75, 1968.

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• Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Giving, Colour

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• Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

  Georges Braque

  Simple, Mind, Facts

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• Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

  Georges Braque

  Perfect, Perfection, Mind

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

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• Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Emotion, Plus

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

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• Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

  Georges Braque

  Intuition, Painting, Results

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• There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

  Georges Braque

  Technique, Sensitivity

  Essay by Dora Vallier in Cahiers d'Art (Paris), p. 16, 1954.

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• I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Way, Planes

  "Entretien avec Jauqes Lassaigne". Book by Georges Braque, 1961.

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