Georges BraqueThinkers

Conscience is the mother of sin.

Criticism is a vain enterprise, for the only valuable thing in art is in fact the thing you cannot explain.

A Definition is a substitution of a definition for the thing itself.

A Definition is the first step towards conformism.

An Object is, in painting, such that once it has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

An Object is nothing other than a rapport between objects or between objects and onself, as a sort of intellectual non-existence.

A Painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Painting is a nail to which one may fasten one's ideas.

Perspective is, in art, a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Poetry is that iin whose illuminating rays, and only in whose illuminating rays, reality reveals itself.

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

Science is contrasted with art in that while art disturbs, science reassures.