"[T]ranslated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one."
Maurice de Vlaminck 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.
"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.."
"..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."
"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."
"The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists. Lart pour lart and other grave problems no longer gave me a headache; they seemed to me so much bosh hand interested me as little as platonic love."
"[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."