Andre Derain quotes
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“We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.”
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“Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment”
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“The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.”
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“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.”
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“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)”
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“I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.”
-- Andre Derain
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“I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank”
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“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”
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“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”
Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”
Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.”
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“Bow to your sensei. Bow to your sensei!”
Source : "Fictional character: Rex". "Napoleon Dynamite", 2004.
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