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Famous Georges Braque Quotes
“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.”
Source: Georges Braque
Source: Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955
“Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.”
“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.”
“To work from nature is to improvise.”
Source: Georges Braque
Source: Georges Braque
“Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”
Source: Georges Braque
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”
Source: Georges Braque
Source: Georges Braque
“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”
“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.”
“La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
“I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.”
Source: Georges Braque
“I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.”
Source: Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955
“Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.”
Source: Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955
“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute