Georges Braque

Painting is a way of keeping one's mind from going flat.

Reality is a sliding door.

The function of painting is to give reality to the unreal.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place.

Perspective is not a law of nature, but a method of representation.

To me, the thing that is worth whether at the moment or in retrospect is the emotional quality or intensity of the experience.

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage and doesn't know what freedom is.

Cubism is an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is viewed from many angles it changes.

I am not a theorist. I am a painter.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

In painting, as in life, the important thing is to keep moving forward.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

The secret of life is in art.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Limiting myself to the nature of an object is not the same as representing it.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

I wanted to fight in the war, but I was too old. So I painted.

Form is the most important thing in art.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself.