89 Quotes by Georges Braque

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.