Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Georges Braque More Quotes by Georges Braque More Quotes From Georges Braque La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented. Georges Braque rite lying To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. Georges Braque substitutes definitions art 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 color believe art The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures. Georges Braque art-is function art Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque art I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. Georges Braque unison copying achieve It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. Georges Braque serendipity events art In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. Georges Braque progress lying art Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. Georges Braque progress knowing art Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. Georges Braque perfection perfect mind 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 planes space way 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 obscurity trying people Evidence exhausts the truth. Georges Braque exhaustion evidence 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 simple mind facts 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 substance discovery mean It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. Georges Braque creativity giving mean 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 artist taken interesting Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. Georges Braque painting communication talking Art is made to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque disturb made science art
