Occupation: Artist Birth: June 10, 1880 Death: September 8, 1954
I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt..
It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the….
I do not innovate. I transmit..
The substance of painting is light..
We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter..
The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge..
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to fre….
Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment.
Colors were dynamite for us..