Georges Braque

The painter must be a poet, not a reporter.

I have always been interested in the relationship between things.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

The artist must be a man of his time.

I am not an innovator, I am a discoverer.

The painter must be a man of his time, but he must also be a man of all time.

I have never been interested in copying nature. I have always been interested in transforming it.

The artist must be a man of his time, but he must also be a man of all time.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

The painter thinks in forms.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

In art, there is only one thing that counts: independence.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural grace if I didn't feel her sensuality.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

One must not imitate but create.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

When objects are represented, they must be represented as they are, not as they appear.

Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all.

I have only one loyalty: to my sensibility.

The essential thing is to have a sense of form.