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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Georges Braque
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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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More quotes by Georges Braque
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.
Georges Braque
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 spatial configuration.
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I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
Georges Braque
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
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When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.
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Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.
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It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
Georges Braque
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
Georges Braque
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
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
Georges Braque
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
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 in the way that music does.
Georges Braque
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
Georges Braque
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
Georges Braque
I like the rule that corrects emotion.
Georges Braque
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
Georges Braque
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Georges Braque
