Quote by Georges Braque Download Open image “To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.” — Georges Braque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is what it is cause it can't be anything but what it is but if it is then it wasn't what it was… — Guillaume L Meyer Copy Share Image
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
