Georges Braque cytaty
Georges Braque
Data urodzenia: 13. Maj 1882
Data zgonu: 31. Sierpień 1963
Georges Braque – francuski malarz, grafik i rzeźbiarz, wraz z Pablem Picassem twórca kubizmu.
Cytaty Georges Braque
„Hołdem dla artysty jest, gdy go okradają.“
— Georges Braque
Źródło: Wielka encyklopedia aforyzmów, tom 1, Croma, 1996, s. 168.
„Evidence exhausts the truth.“
— Georges Braque
as quoted in Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde, ed. Charles Juliet, First Dalkey Archive edition, 2009, London and Champaign pp. 60-61
„At that time I was very friendly with Picasso. Our temperaments were very different, but we had the same idea. Later on it became clear, Picasso is Spanish and I am French; as everyone knows that mean a lot of differences, but during those days the differences did not count... We were living in Montmartre, we used to meet every day, we used to talk... In those years Picasso and I said things to each other that nobody will ever say again, that nobody could say any more... It was rather like a pair of climbers roped together.“
— Georges Braque
p. 264 - Braque's quote is referring to the early common starting years of Cubism in Paris with Picasso, ca. 1907 -1910
„I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same. I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow. I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction..“
— Georges Braque
p. 265
„When we were so friendly with Picasso, there was a time when we had difficulty in recognizing our own pictures. Later, when the revelation went deeper, differences appeared. Revelation is the one thing that cannot be taken from you. But before the revelation took place, there was still a marked intention of carrying painting in a direction that could re-establish the bond between Picasso and ourselves.“
— Georges Braque
p. 265
Braque is referring in this quote to the early common start of Cubism ca. 1907 -1910, in Paris with Picasso
„Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.“
— Georges Braque
two quotes by Braque, in 'Les Problèmes de la Peinture', interview with Gaston Diehl Paris 1945
