Georges Braque
A major 20th-century French painter, he was a co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso, known for his still lifes and landscapes.
Quotes by Georges Braque
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
The painter thinks in forms and colors. The aim is not to reconstitute an anecdotal fact but to constitute a pictorial fact.
I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I had to create a new beauty, the beauty of the straight line and the curve.
The senses deform, the mind forms.
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
Truth exists, invention does not.
The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.
I like the rule that corrects the emotion.
The object is not to copy nature, but to express it.
The painter who is not a poet is not a painter.
One must never forget that art is not a science.
The aim is not to reconstitute an anecdotal fact but to constitute a pictorial fact.
I do not believe in art for art's sake; I believe in art for the sake of the artist.
The only thing that matters in painting is that which cannot be explained.
I have always tried to be a painter and nothing else.
The true artist is a man who can create something out of nothing.
Art is a wound that turns into light.
The world is an illusion, but a beautiful one.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.