Quotes from Georges Braque

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

With age, art and life become one.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

In art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can't explain.

Truth exists, only lies are invented.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

You may give all the explanations you like, but your painting makes me feel as if you were trying to make us eat cotton waste and wash it down with kerosene.

Reality can only be illuminated by a ray of poetry. Everything is sleep around us.

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue