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.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. - Georges Braque
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
- Georges Braque
Truth exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Out of limitations, new forms emerge - Georges Braque
Out of limitations, new forms emerge
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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 n… - Georges Braque
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 n…
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships. - Georges Braque
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
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 i… - Georges Braque
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 i…
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. - Georges Braque
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Art is a wound turned into light. - Georges Braque
Art is a wound turned into light.
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