Georges Braque Quotes
- Truth exists; only lies are invented.
- With age, art and life become one.
- I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists…
- There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
- It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
- Art upsets, science reasures.
- Art disturbs, science reassures.
- Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
- The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
- The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that…
- Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
- Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
- To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
- The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
- In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
- Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
- 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…
- Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
- I like the rule that corrects emotion.
- We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.