James Ensor quotes
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“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.”
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“The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.”
-- James EnsorSource : Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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“In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.”
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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.”
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“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”
Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr
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