Instinct Without Quotes by Maurice de Vlaminck

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Maurice de Vlaminck has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
• In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
• When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again…
• I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help…
• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude…
• Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the…
• When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I…
• I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but…
• I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes…
• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried…
• I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as…
• When I work I always find something.

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