Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

Popular Topics
America, Brain, Philosophy, Happy, Children, Book, Intelligent, Possible, Value Of Life, Kind, Quite, Bible, Thank You, Justice, Air, Story, Hope, Angry, Stage, Private Life, Inspiration, Funny, Lives, Kindly, Food, World, Town, Important, Feelings, Football, Faith, Organization, Fitness, Poet, Life, Jesus, Life Is Good, Adventure, Night, Path Of Love, Things, Oceans, Comfortable, English, Quiet, Future, Weak, Butterfly, Humbly, Job
Georges Braque

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm. . . If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Art, Explain, Harm, Irreparable Harm, Poetry, Quality
Same Author Quotes

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Art, Truth, Lying, Lies, Exists

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness. . I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

Absolute, Art, Skill, Skills, Weight, Woman

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art, Design, Serendipity, Explain, Valuable

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Color, Fact, Goal, Pictorial, Thinking, Thinks

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. . . . . . Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Art, Bringing, Disappear, Mistake, Objects, Taken
Similar Quotes