To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. Georges Braque More Quotes by Georges Braque More Quotes From Georges Braque 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. Georges Braque lightworkart La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented. Georges Braque ritelying 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. Georges Braque colorbelieveart The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures. Georges Braque art-isfunctionart Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque art I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. Georges Braque unisoncopyingachieve It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. Georges Braque serendipityeventsart In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. Georges Braque progresslyingart Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. Georges Braque progressknowingart Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. Georges Braque perfectionperfectmind I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space. Georges Braque planesspaceway Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good. Georges Braque obscuritytryingpeople Evidence exhausts the truth. Georges Braque exhaustionevidence Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration. Georges Braque simplemindfacts I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures. Georges Braque substancediscoverymean It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. Georges Braque creativitygivingmean I like the rule that corrects emotion. Georges Braque emotion I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part. Georges Braque artisttakeninteresting Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. Georges Braque paintingcommunicationtalking Art is made to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque disturbmadescienceart
