Maurice de Vlaminck

Quotes

• “[how anyone could] remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.”
• “..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..”
• “[Picasso is guilty of] having dragged French painting into the most dismal 'impasse' and of having led it into in describable confusion. From 1900 – 1930, he led it towards negation, impotence and death. All alone with himself Picasso is impotence made man. Nature havinf denied him a real character, all his intelligence and malice have been employed to fabricate a personality.”
• “The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..”
• “[T]ranslated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.”
• “I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1876-04-04 ) 4 April 1876, Paris, France

Died

11 October 1958 (1958-10-11) (aged 82), Rueil-la-Gadelière , France

Known for

Painting

Movement

Fauvism

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Image

Maurice de Vlaminck en 1942.jpg

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