Georges Braque in quotes, the artist on painting, life & Cubism - free resource, French art history

Georges Braque in quotes - the famous artist on his painting art, life and early Cubism in France, together with Picasso - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

Along with the young Spanish artist Pablo Picasso George Braque initiated early Cubism - the French famous art movement c. 1908 in Paris; both admired the art of Cezanne and found it as their inspiration for Cubism. In his artist quotes Braque refers to this early Cubist period with Picasso; it was George Braque who invented then the ‘collage art’ as an important early Cubist technique.

Some years later Braque painted in a very delicate clear style his many famous Cubist still-life paintings (see image right), most in subtle lines. Later Braque turned back to representational art of small-sized sober French landscape paintings, in which all characteristic traces of Cubism were disappeared.
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Some selected quotes of the famous French artist Georges Braque - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’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…’ - quote of Braque; as cited in ‘The wild men of Paris’, article by Gelett Burgess, May 1910

• ’In art progress does not consist in extension, but in the knowledge of limits. Limitation of means determines style, engenders new form, and give impulses to creation. Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting’ - quote of Braque, 1917; cited in ‘Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries’, Pantheon Books, 1972

• ’I am always working on a number of canvases at one time, eight, ten… .I take years to finish them, but I look at them each day… .You see the advantage of not working from real life - the apples would be rotten long before I completed my canvas…’ - Braque’s quote in ‘Cahiers d’art’, Paris 1954
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous French artist Georges Braque:

  • extended biographical notes of Braque, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Braque, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georges_Braque
  • images of the painting art of Georges Braque, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Braque
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]