“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 lin...”

— Georges Braque

“In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.”

— Georges Braque

“One must beware of a formula good for everything, that will serve to interpret the other arts as well as reality, and that instead of creating will only produce a style, or rather a stylization.”

— Georges Braque

“The arts which achieve their effect through purity have never been arts that were good for everything. Greek sculpture (among others) with its decadence, teaches us this.”

— Georges Braque

“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.”

— Georges Braque

“In art progress does not consist in extension, but in the knowledge of limits.”

— Georges Braque

“Limitation of means determines style, engenders new form, and give impulses to creation. Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads ...”

— Georges Braque

“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”

— Georges Braque

“Speaking purely for myself, I can say that it was my very acute feeling for the matière, for the substance of painting, which pushed me into thinking about the possibilities of the medium. I wanted...”

— Georges Braque

“Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Trouillebert's work bears a likeness to that of Corot, but they have nothing in common.”

— Georges Braque