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Georges Braque Quotes about Painting

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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Georges Braque
Unexpected, Painting
"Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Georges Braque
Art, Ideas, Painting

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Georges Braque
Painting, Disturbing

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Georges Braque
Writing, Painting, Illusion
Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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

Georges Braque
Communication, Talking, Painting
"Les Problèmes de la Peinture". Interview with Gaston Diehl in Paris, 1945.

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
Perspective, Painting, Disappear
Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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.

Georges Braque
Bird, Painting, Canvas
Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Georges Braque
Men, Poetry, Painting
Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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
Thinking, Painting, Kind
"Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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.

Georges Braque
Intuition, Painting, Results

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