Georges Braque Quotes

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

Art upsets, science reasures.

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

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

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

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

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

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

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

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.

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

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Truth exists only lies are invented.

Truth exists. Only lies are invented.

Art upsets science reassures.