Andre Derain famous quotes

Colors were dynamite for us.
-- Andre Derain

#Color #Dynamite

We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.
-- Andre Derain

#Color #Sun #Speak

The substance of painting is light.
-- Andre Derain

#Light #Substance #Painting

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment
-- Andre Derain

#Art #Intelligent #Enjoyment

The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
-- Andre Derain

#Art #Too Much #Danger

I do not innovate. I transmit.
-- Andre Derain

#Innovation

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 free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
-- Andre Derain

#Fire #Light #Merit

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 year 1905)
-- Andre Derain

#Photography #Years #Snapshots

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.
-- Andre Derain

#Kids #Drawing #Doubt

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

One handles truths like dynamite.

You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

Bow to your sensei. Bow to your sensei!