All Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes
- Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. Cooking
- In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Art
- 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. Afresh
- 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… Ambition
- 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… Achieved
- 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… All
- 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… Days
- 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… All
- 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
- 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… Achieve
- 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… All
- When I work I always find something. Always Find