Georges Braque Painting 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...

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.