Quotes from Maurice de Vlaminck

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

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.

When I work I always find something.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.