Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts,… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took,… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
