Georges Braque Quotes About Perspective

Quotes about: Perspective

• 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.

• 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”

• 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”

• 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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