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Georges Rouault Quotes
Page 1 of 1Georges Rouault
May 27, 1871 - February 13, 1958
Nationality: French
Category: Artist
Subcategory: French Artist
|  I am a believer and a conformist. | | A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. | | Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. | | My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. | | The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. | | For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. | | Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly. | | The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. | | The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. | | Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. |
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