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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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 like the rule that corrects emotion.
Georges Braque
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
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Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.
Georges Braque
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
Georges Braque
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
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I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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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.
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I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.
Georges Braque
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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.
Georges Braque
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
Georges Braque
Critics should help people see for themselves they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
Georges Braque
