Famous French Artists - Painters, Sculptors &
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that are based in or born in the country of the
European country of France. Artists include painters,
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I have always been very much involved in the pseudo
biological cycle of production, consumption and
destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished
by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material
results is the flooding of our world with junk and
rejected odd objects. |
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+ Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit
on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. |
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced
by another language. I don’t know what to say
about what I paint, really. |
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The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed
world.. the picture.. which, like a book, has the
same interest no matter where it happens to be.
Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal
of time doing nothing but looking, both around him
and inside him. |
| Georges
Braque |
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cubist painter :::
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+ Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing
you cannot explain. |
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+ The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives
with burning excitement the best part of childhood. |
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I believe in working hard. Painting is serious.
A vice, not a play thing. |
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+ It took me 40 years to find out that painting
is not sculpture. |
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Changes in societal structure and in art would possess
more credibility if they had their origins in the
soul and spirit. If people read the words of the
prophets with closer attention, they would find
the keys to life.
+ My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special
occupation, some kind of work that would not force
me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that
would allow me to discover the meaning of life. |
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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered
under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it
is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist
who discovers it. |
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+ Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to
have it at 50. |
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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises
me, that it violates my customary valuations of
things and offers me other, unexpected ones. |
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order
to avoid conforming to my own taste. |
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began
to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth
across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they
tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful
work. |
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Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding
it. |
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+ Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. |
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+ Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. |
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+ You come to nature with all her theories, and
she knocks them all flat. |
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The sculptor represents the transition from one
pose to another.. he indicates how insensibly the
first glides into the second. In his work we still
see a part of what was and we discover a part of
what is to be. |
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+ When I go out into the countryside and see the
sun and the green and everything flowering, I say
to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to
me!". |
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+ In our time there are many artists who do something
because it is new; they see their value and their
justification in this newness. They are deceiving
themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This
has to do with one thing only; making a subject
better from its intrinsic nature. |
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I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And
I had no other ambition than to discover with the
help of new means those deep inner ties that linked
me to the very soil. |
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