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Georges Braque Quotes

1882–1963 France

Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a French painter and sculptor. He was one of the French Fauve painters, circa 1906.

France
Painters

Also known as: Braque, Braque, Georges

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Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Trouillebert's work bears a likeness to that of Corot, but they have nothing in common.

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917–52 ['Day and Night: Notebooks (1952)

The arts which achieve their effect through purity have never been arts that were good for everything. Greek sculpture (among others) with its decadence, teaches us this.

In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our [Braque & Picasso's, in the start of Cubism] conception of space.

Braque (1968)

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.

In conversation with Dora Vallier (1954)

I started above all by producing still-lives because in nature there is a tactile space, I would say almost manual.

In art progress does not consist in extension, but in the knowledge of limits.

One must beware of a formula good for everything, that will serve to interpret the other arts as well as reality, and that instead of creating will only produce a style, or rather a stylization.

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.

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

The painting is finished when it has erased the idea.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working art my motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Braque (1968)

To avoid a projection towards infinity I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off. To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

We [ Picasso and Braque], were living in Montmartre, we saw each other every day.. ..We were like two mountaineers roped together.

Braque (1968)

It is the limitation of means that determine style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

Tactile space separates us from objects, as opposed to visual space, which separates objects from one another. I have spent my life trying to paint the former kind.

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, if you like.. .There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georges Braque (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.