Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. 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 creating reality art In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. Georges Braque painting unexpected We will never have repose. The present is perpetual. Georges Braque repose perpetual 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 eye men thinking 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 mets circumstances thinking 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 painting intuition results 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 canvas painting bird Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. Georges Braque colour space giving 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 disappear painting perspective In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained. Georges Braque one-thing bits art 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 signatures differences moments There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. Georges Braque sensitivity technique 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 skills natural beauty Out of limitations, new forms emerge Georges Braque limitation form One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. Georges Braque temperature objects Never join an organization. Georges Braque clubs organization Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Georges Braque painting poetry men Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. Georges Braque perspective taken mistake 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 light work art
