Georges Braque Quotes

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• 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…
• One must not imitate what one wants to create.
• The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with…
• Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
• A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
• I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
• 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…
• In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
• When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and…
• Out of limitations, new forms emerge
• One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
• The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one…
• To work from nature is to improvise.
• Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with…
• It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
• I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it…
• I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove…
• Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
• When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped…
• To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no…

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