Georges Braque Quotes - Page 2

To work from nature is to improvise.

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

Never join an organization.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

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.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

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

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Art upsets, science reasures.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

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.

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.

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.