Georges Braque Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Georges Braque quote about:
- Art,
- Canvas,
- Composition,
- Cubism,
- Emotions,
- Giving,
- Lying,
- Painting,
- Perspective,
- Reality,
- Revelations,
- Truth,
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“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
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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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“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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“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
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“Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.”
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“Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.”
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“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”
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“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”
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“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.”
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“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
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“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.”
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“Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.”
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“Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.”
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“In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.”
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“The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.”
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“It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”
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“The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.”
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“The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.”
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“To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.”
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“Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.”
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“Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye...”
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“I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction...”
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“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
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“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
