Georges Braque Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Painting

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

  Georges Braque

  Art, Ideas, Nails

• 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.

• 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

• 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 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.

• 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

• 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”

• 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.

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

  Georges Braque

  Painting, Disturbing

• 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.

• 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”

• 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.

• Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

  Georges Braque

  Men, Poetry, Painting

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

• In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

  Georges Braque

  Unexpected, Painting

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

• 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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