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Maurice de Vlaminck

Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.

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I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism. . . I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

Eye, Felt, Habit, Habits, Liberate, World

When I work I always find something.

Work

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.

Artistic, Barbarian, Barbarians, Instinct, Violence

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.

Full, Paint, Sunshine, Thinking, Urge

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Art, Believe, Doctors, Useful

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.

Canvas, Color, Feeling, Feelings, Landscape, Series

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.

Ambition, Beautiful, Deep, Mean, Soil

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.

Beautiful, Eye, Eyes, Hate, Jealousy, Perceived

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, Give, Hands, People, Start, Umpires

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.

Color, Disobey, Led, Maximum, Order, Real

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

Cooking, Explained, Good, Good Cook, Painting

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 of all I remained Vlaminck.

Footsteps, Long, Mind, Remained, Style, Vlaminck

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.

Color, Colors, Harmony, Opposites, Orange, Wall