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Georges Braque Art Quotes - (25 quotes)

Georges Braque - From the Aging category:

With age, art and life become one. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Art category:

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Clubs category:

Never join an organization. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Colour category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Emotion category:

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)

Georges Braque - From the Finishing category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Goals category:

The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with the constitution of a pictorial fact. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Ideas category:

Painting is a nail to which I fashion my ideas. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Illusion category:

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Improvisation category:

To work from nature is to improvise. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Limitations category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Morality category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Nature category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Perfection category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Perspective category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Progress category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Questions category:

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that? (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Repose category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Rules category:

I like the rule that corrects emotion. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Senses category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Space category:

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

Georges Braque - From the Style category:

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)

Georges Braque - From the Truth category:

Truth exists. Only lies are invented. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Unknowns category:

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. (Georges Braque)

Georges Braque - From the Unknowns category:

In Art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can't explain. (Georges Braque)

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