Maurice de Vlaminck

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

When I work I always find something.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

— Maurice de Vlaminck