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

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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

truth lying art

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Georges Braque

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

Georges Braque

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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.

Georges Braque

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Art is a wound turned into light.

Georges Braque

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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.

Georges Braque

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The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. 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

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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.

Georges Braque

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

Georges Braque

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

Georges Braque

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What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.

Georges Braque

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

Georges Braque

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Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque

truth life reality

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Georges Braque

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When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

Georges Braque

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Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

Georges Braque

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With age, art and life become one.

Georges Braque

mastery age art

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Georges Braque

morality mean art

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.

Georges Braque

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

Georges Braque

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