Art Quote by Georges Braque Download Open image “There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.” — Georges Braque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Valuable
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the… — Arthur Wesley Dow Copy Share Image
When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail. — Iggy Pop 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
