Georges Braque Quotes

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

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

Art upsets, science reasures.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

With age, art and life become one.

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.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Art is a wound turned into light.

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

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 like the rule that corrects emotion.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

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.

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

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

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

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

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

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.

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

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

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

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

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

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.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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

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.

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

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.