Andre Derain Quotes

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

  Andre Derain

  Color, Sun, Speak

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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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  Fire, Light, Merit

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• Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

  Andre Derain

  Art, Intelligent, Enjoyment

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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)

  Andre Derain

  Photography, Years, Snapshots

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• The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

  Andre Derain

  Art, Too Much, Danger

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• Colors were dynamite for us.

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  Color, Dynamite

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• The substance of painting is light.

  Andre Derain

  Light, Substance, Painting

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

  Andre Derain

  Kids, Drawing, Doubt

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• I do not innovate. I transmit.

  Andre Derain

  Innovation, Transmit

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