James Ensor famous quotes

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My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.
-- James Ensor

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The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
-- James Ensor

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In our house, all you hear is groaning.
-- James Ensor

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

James Ensor famous quotes

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