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 Copy Share Image
I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
