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Art Quotes by Georges Braque
- With age, art and life become one.
- There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
- 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.
- Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
- 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…
- In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
- Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
- To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no…
- Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
- One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the…
- Art is a wound turned into light.
- Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
- Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
- Art is meant to disturb
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