Georges Braque Quotes about Art

Georges Braque was a famous French painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with the Cubism art movement. He is best known for his developing Cubism with Pablo Picasso which went on to influence many modern artists. Famous Georges Braque artworks include “Baigneuse (Le Grand Nu, Large Nude)”, “Man with a Guitar”, “Violin and Candlestick”, “Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece”, “Balustre et Crane”, “Little Harbor in Normandy”, “The Castle at Roche-Guyon”, “Mozart Kubelick”, “Girl with a Cross”, “Violin and Glass”, “Woman with a Mandolin”, and “Houses at Estaque”.

Mini biography: Born Georges Braque on the 13th of May, 1882 in Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise, France. His mother was Augustine Johannet and his father Charles Braque was a house painter and decorator. Braque married the model Marcelle Lapre in 1912. The artist died on the 31st of August, 1963 in Paris, France at the age of 81. Georges Braque is buried at the Church of St. Valery in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.

List of Famous Georges Braque Art Quotes

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain. Georges Braque

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. Georges Braque

I no longer believe in anything. Objects don’t exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry. Georges Braque

In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits. Georges Braque

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Color acts in the way that music does, if you like. Georges Braque

One must beware of a formula good for everything, that will serve to interpret the other arts as well as reality, and that instead of creating will only produce a style, or rather a stylization. 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. Georges Braque

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work, which even I don’t understand, nor do I try to do so. Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if – as nearly always happens – a critic’s explanations serve to increase the general obscurity that’s all to the good. French poets are particularly helpful in this respect. Georges Braque

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. Georges Braque

Georges Braque Portrait Painting

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