Georges Braque
Georges Braque
Georges Braquewas a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque’s work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth13 May 1882
CityArgenteuil, France
CountryFrance
Georges Braque quotes about
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.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
I like the rule that corrects emotion.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
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.
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
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.
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.