I like the rule that corrects emotion. Georges Braque More Quotes by Georges Braque More Quotes From Georges Braque 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. Georges Braque creatingrealityart In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. Georges Braque paintingunexpected We will never have repose. The present is perpetual. Georges Braque reposeperpetual To work from nature is to improvise. Georges Braque improvisation 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. Georges Braque eyementhinking If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. Georges Braque metscircumstancesthinking 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 paintingintuitionresults 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 canvaspaintingbird Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. Georges Braque colourspacegiving 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 disappearpaintingperspective In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained. Georges Braque one-thingbitsart I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow. Georges Braque signaturesdifferencesmoments There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. Georges Braque sensitivitytechnique 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. Georges Braque skillsnaturalbeauty Out of limitations, new forms emerge Georges Braque limitationform One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. Georges Braque temperatureobjects Never join an organization. Georges Braque clubsorganization Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Georges Braque paintingpoetrymen Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. Georges Braque perspectivetakenmistake Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Georges Braque truthcommon
