Georges Braque Space Quotations

What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.