Georges Braque Mean Quotations

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.