89 Quotes by Georges Braque

You may give all the explanations you like, but your painting makes me feel as if you were trying to make us eat cotton waste and wash it down with kerosene.

Reality can only be illuminated by a ray of poetry. Everything is sleep around us.

La ve rite existe; on n’invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge.

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one’s personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction...

I considered that the painter’s personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one’s self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.