Explore Quotes by Georges Braque

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

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.

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

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.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

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

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.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

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.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

Art disturbs, science reassures.