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"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."

Karel Appel· b. 1921View quote →

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"an integral translation of Matisses text: Notes of a Painter, 1908"

"I have always thought that he more limited the means, the stronger the expression. That may explain the choice of a small palette."

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Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"Through play, we renew contact with childhood - My art is childlike."

"Our roots are in the depths of the woods-on the banks of streams and among the mosses."

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🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."

"It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter ,with the nature of his materials."

"to be completely empty of ideas at the moment of setting brush to canvas, the head being just as empty as the canvas."

"Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life."

"Use materials with forceful MUSCULAR colours – the reddest of reds, the most purple of purples, the greenest of greens, intense yellows, orange, vermillion – and SKELETON tones of white, grey and black."

"I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ."

"I listened, and I've come to the conclusion I just don't trust him."

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🇫🇷Maurice de Vlaminck

Art

cubism

1876–1958

"..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation.."

"I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country but by thoroughly expressing the Negro spirit, the beauty of the art of the blacks."

"..color being enigmatic in itself.. ..then to be logical we cannot use it any other way than enigmatically.."

"A virtual exhibit on the life of Emily Carr"

"The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—"

"Art is nothing abstract, theoretical. We cannot detach it or set it apart. Art must live, and I want to be the intermediary of life."

"Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the 'el', and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high."

"..between ourselves, do you think a worker wants to hang a picture in his home where he sees himself sweating in a factory? He would prefer a bouquet of flowers or a pretty landscape."

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Notable Quotes

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."

— Pablo Picasso, b. 1881View →

"I listened, and I've come to the conclusion I just don't trust him."

— Jerry Brown, b. 1938View →

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

— Henri Matisse, b. 1869View →

"Through play, we renew contact with childhood - My art is childlike."

— Karel Appel, b. 1921View →

"In a picture every part will be visible and will play the role conferred upon it, be it principal or secondary. All that is not useful in the picture is detrimental."

— Henri Matisse, b. 1869View →

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