Maurice de Vlaminck famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Cooking #Painting #Good Cook
I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in CÃ©zanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Long #Style #Mind
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 painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Real #Order #Color
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 to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Beautiful #Hate #Eye
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

#Barbarians #Violence #Artistic
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 my easel in full sunshine.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Sunshine #Thinking #Paint
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 that landscape.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Color #Feelings #Vibrancy
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 walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Wall #Color #Opposites
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 those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Beautiful #Ambition #Mean
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

#Hands #Giving #People
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

#Art #Believe #Doctors
When I work I always find something.
-- Maurice de Vlaminck

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