When I work I always find something.

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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 re…

- 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 max…

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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…

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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…

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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 sunsh…

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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.

- Maurice De Vlaminck

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

- 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…

- Maurice De Vlaminck