“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.” ThinkingFeelsPaintUrgesSunshineIndolence Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“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.” WorldWayRealDoneOrderAchieveColorPaintingReal LifeSatisfiedPurityBombsUrgesThrowingConventionsMaximumRenewalTangibleLiberated Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“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.” WorldEyeWantedFeltMy OwnMinesTheoryHabitAuthorityContemporaryUrgesNew WorldContemporary LifeClassicism Book:Dangerous corner Source: Dangerous corner