89 Quotes by Georges Braque

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.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

To work from nature is to improvise.