Georges Braque citáty

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„Pravda existuje. Vymýšlí se lež.“

„Láska a nenávist jsou plody téhož citu a mají k sobě blíže než dvě lásky nebo dvě nenávisti.“

„I velká láska vyžaduje odpočinout si jeden od druhého.“

„Mít svobodné myšlenky - znamená být současný. Málo lidí může říci: "Jsem tu". Jsou v minulosti a vidí se v budoucnosti.“

„Pravda existuje. Vymýšlet je třeba pouze lži.“

„Umění je proto, aby zneklidňovalo.“

„Umění má znepokojovat. Věda vyvolává jistotu.“

„Věda uklidňuje. Umění je od toho, aby rozčilovalo.“

„Umění pro lid vynalezli intelektuálové.“

„Omyl není opakem pravdy. Přemýšlejme!“

„Nepracuji, jak chci; pracuji, jak umím.“

„Není možné chtít věci jen zobrazovat. Je třeba do nich vniknout. Ztělesnit v nich sám sebe.“

„Před umělcem dávám přednost člověku. Cézanne nebyl umělec, Manet ano. Jestli mi rozumíte.“

„Nehledám euforii. Stačí mi zápal.“

„Pesimista své myšlenky nechrání, ale vydává je v šanc.“

„Je holdem umělci, když ho vykrádají.“

„Zapomeňme na věci, zkoumejme pouze vztahy.“

“You see, I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.”

“Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.”

“Colour came into its own with papiers collés.... with these works we [Braque, and a little later Picasso, started to make 'collage art', circa 1912] succeeded in dissociating colour from form, in putting it on a footing independent of form, for that was the crux of the matter. Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.”

“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipathic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cézanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this.... scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

“I felt dissatisfied with traditional perspective. Merely a mechanical process, this perspective never conveys things in full. It starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye... When one got to thinking like that, everything changed, you cannot imagine how much!”

“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.”

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

“The painting is finished when it has erased the idea.”

“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.”

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

“I started above all by producing still-lives because in nature there is a tactile space, I would say almost manual.”

“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... I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.”