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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• Art is a wound turned into light.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Healing, Light

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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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• Out of limitations, new forms emerge

  Georges Braque

  Form, Limitation

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Reality, Poetry

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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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• 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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• 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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• Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Knowing, Progress

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

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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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• With age, art and life become one.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Age, Mastery

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

  Georges Braque

  Painting, Disturbing

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

  Georges Braque

  Believe, I Believe, Computer

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• I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

  Georges Braque

  Copying, Achieve, Unison

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

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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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• 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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• 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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