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Maurice Denis - From the Advice category:
Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Art category:
Art is when things appear rounded. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Art category:
Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Attitude category:
The sublime is to approach the subject or wall with an attitude that is grand, noble, and in no way petty... (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Colour category:
-on a frieze by Tintoretto...
There were apples painted in pale green and bright red on a ground of emerald green leaves. It is all colour. One might say it was a Cezanne. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Emotion category:
The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves... everything is contained in the beauty of the work. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Freedom category:
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Insecurity category:
Art remains a sure refuge, the hope of a reason in life from now on, and the consoling thought that little beauty manifests itself in our lives, and that we are continuing the work of Creation... (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Painting category:
Remember that a painting – before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote – is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Painting category:
Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity.' (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Revelation category:
- captivated by exposition of works by Paul Gauguin and friends, 1884...
What amazement, followed by what a revelation! In place of windows opening on nature, like the impressionists, these were surfaces which were solidly decorative, powerfully colorful, bordered with brutal strokes, partitioned. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Simplicity category:
To synthesize is not necessarily to simplify in the sense of suppressing certain parts of the object: it is to simplify in the sense of rendering intelligible. It is, in short, to put in hierarchic order: to set each picture to a single rhythm, to a dominant; it is sacrifice, to subordinate - to generalize. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Sincerity category:
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. (Maurice Denis)
Maurice Denis - From the Worth category:
Therefore the work of art has merit, inscribed in the marvelous beauty of flowers, of light, in the proportion of trees and shape of waves, and the perfection of faces; to inscribe our poor and lamentable life of suffering, of hope and of thought. (Maurice Denis)
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