Braque Quotes

I like the rule that corrects emotion. — Georges Braque

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also. — Georges Braque

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque

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

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

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque

Never join an organization. — Georges Braque

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

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual. — Georges Braque

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. — Georges Braque

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

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. — Georges Braque

Evidence exhausts the truth. — Georges Braque

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. — Georges Braque

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. — Georges Braque

Art is a wound turned into light. — Georges Braque

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. — Georges Braque

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. — Georges Braque

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. — Georges Braque

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque

With age, art and life become one. — Georges Braque

Out of limitations, new forms emerge — Georges Braque

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form. — Georges Braque

Braque was used to this kind of crap; her mom had been a master choreographer of anxious micromanagement since Braque could remember. — J. Ryan Stradal

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

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

Art is made to trouble but science reassures. — Georges Braque

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical. — Georges Braque

Dormitories are even cooler than I thought they would be," Eva said. "They're like a prison, but the sex is worse," Braque said. — J. Ryan Stradal

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships. — Georges Braque

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures. — Georges Braque

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. — Georges Braque

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. — Georges Braque

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. — Georges Braque

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. — Georges Braque

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me. — Amrita Sher-Gil

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. — Georges Braque

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships. — Georges Braque

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. — Georges Braque

We must not imitate that which we seek to create. — Georges Braque

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. — Georges Braque

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque

One must not imitate what one wants to create. — Georges Braque

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures. — Georges Braque

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared. — Georges Braque

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. — Georges Braque

To work from nature is to improvise. — Georges Braque

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