Georges Braque Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

• Art is a wound turned into light.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Healing, Light

• The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Painting

• 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”

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Design, Serendipity

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Fate, Destiny

• Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Science, Technology

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

• With age, art and life become one.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Age, Mastery

• Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Nails

• 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.

• Art upsets, science reasures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Upset

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Reality, Poetry

• 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.

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, One Thing, Bits

• It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Serendipity, Events

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

• The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Function, Art Is

• 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”

• 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.

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Trouble, Made

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Definitions, Substitutes

• 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”

• Art disturbs, science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art

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

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