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
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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.
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
Evidence exhausts the truth.
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...
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
Art disturbs, science reassures.
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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.