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
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...
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
To work from nature is to improvise.
In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.
Out of limitations, new forms emerge
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.