Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — 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… — 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… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — 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
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — 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
When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes… — 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
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — 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
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who… — 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
