All Georges Braque Quotes
- Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. Certitude
- Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. Appears
- I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Belief
- Never join an organization. Clubs
- Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. Colour
- You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour… Acts
- Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. Communication
- I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered… Composition
- Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a… Admit
- What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… Advance
- If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch,… Any
- Evidence exhausts the truth. Evidence
- In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. Counts
- Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form. Acts
- 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… Been
- Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. Centuries
- Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. Beholder
- Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Life
- I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too… All
- Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles… All