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Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes



Quotes by Maurice de Vlaminck - (15 quotes)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Ambition category:

And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Colour category:

Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Colour category:

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Ego category:

When I get my hands on painting materials, I don't give a damn about other people's painting: life and me, me and life. In art, every generation must start again afresh. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Indolence category:

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Instinct category:

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Journey category:

I had no wish for a change of scene. All these places that I knew so well, the Seine with its strings of barges, the tugs with their plumes of smoke, the taverns in the suburbs, the colors of the atmosphere, the sky with its great clouds and its patches of sun, these were what I wanted to paint. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Money category:

I crushed and botched the ultramarines and vermilions though they were very expensive and I had to buy them on credit. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Obsession category:

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Painting category:

Good painting is like good cooking: it can be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Renewal category:

What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Style category:

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Theory category:

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Tones category:

I heightened all tones. I transposed into an orchestration of pure colors all the feelings of which I was conscious. (Maurice de Vlaminck)

Maurice de Vlaminck - From the Work category:

When I work I always find something. (Maurice de Vlaminck)