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.
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„Hołdem dla artysty jest, gdy go okradają.“
— Georges Braque
Źródło: Wielka encyklopedia aforyzmów, tom 1, Croma, 1996, s. 168.
„By using a white paint applied to the canvas I make a napkin. But I am sure the white shape is something conceived before knowing what it was to become. This means that a certain transformation has taken place... In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.“
— Georges Braque
Quote by Braque, from 'Le Monologue du Peintre', George Charbonnier, Paris 1959
„We [ Picasso and Braque], were living in Montmartre, we saw each other every day.... We were like two mountaineers roped together.“
— Georges Braque
p. 10
[Braque refers to their common years in Paris, c. 1907 - 1912]
„To avoid a projection towards infinity I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off. To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.“
— Georges Braque
Quote from: 'Entretien avec Jauqes Lassaigne' - 1961; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 94
„What particularly attracted me [in his painting 'Still-life with Musical instruments', 1908 – 1909].... was the materialization of this new space that I felt to be in the offing. So I began to concentrate on still-life's, because in the still-life you have a tactile, I might almost say a manual space... This answered to the hankering I have always had to touch things and not merely see them. It was this space that particularly attracted me, for this was the first concern of Cubism, the investigation of space.... In tactile space you measure the distance separating you from the object, whereas in visual space you measure the distance separating things from each other. This is what led me, long ago, from landscape to still-life.“
— Georges Braque
p. 41
„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.“
— Georges Braque
Quote of Braque, late 1908; as cited in The wild men of Paris, Gelett Burgess, https://monoskop.org/images/f/f3/Burgess_Gelett_1910_The_Wild_Men_of_Paris.pdf in 'The Architectural Record', p. 405, May 1910; as cited in Braque, by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, London 1968, p. 34
„I started to introduce letters into my pictures [his first collage art]. These were forms which could not be deformed, because, being two-dimensional, they existed outside three-dimensional space; their inclusion in a picture allowed a distinction to be made between objects which were situated in space and those which belonged outside space [the letters].“
— Georges Braque
p. 68
