Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Georges BraqueRead
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
Interpretation
Painting serves as a medium to express and anchor my thoughts.
Georges Braque emphasizes the significance of painting as a vital tool for expression and conceptualization. Just as a nail holds something firmly in place, painting allows the artist to secure their ideas visually and tangibly, transforming abstract thoughts into a concrete form that can be shared and understood by others.
In practice
During an art class, a teacher could use this quote to inspire students to express their thoughts through painting.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
With age, art and life become one.
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse β it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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