Georges Braque Paint Quotations

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

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

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.

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.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong...

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.