Quotes by Maurice De Vlaminck - Page 1

When I work I always find something.
Maurice De Vlaminck / Painter
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
Maurice De Vlaminck / Painter
Good
Cooking
Good Cook
Painting
Like
Tasted
Explained
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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
Maurice De Vlaminck / Painter
Art
Smile
Believe
Doctors
Sick
Useful
Doctor
Prescription
Theories
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Maurice De Vlaminck / Painter
Damn
Hands
Materials
Painting
People
Umpires
Again
Generation
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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 / Painter
Artistic
Barbarians
Violence
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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 / Painter
Paint
Sunshine
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Color
Feelings
Landscape
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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 / Painter
Long
Mind
Style
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I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. 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 / Painter
Ambition
Beautiful
Mean
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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 / Painter
Beautiful
Eye
Hate
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I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.
Maurice De Vlaminck / Painter
Eye
Habit
World
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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 / Painter
Color
Orange
Wall
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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 / Painter
Color
Order
Real
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