Art Quote by Georges Braque Download Open image “In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.” — Georges Braque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Progress Artist Extensions Growth Knowledge Knowledge Limitations Limitation Limitations Lying Progress Progress Lies
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine. One comes… — Siri Hustvedt 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
Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress. — Donald Barthelme 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
