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
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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 inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
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...
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.