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Chaim Soutine Quotes

1893–1943 Russia

Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Russian painter of Belarusian Jewish origin; He traveled young to France and created many landscapes, still-life's and portrait paintings in a very free gesture.

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I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox.

Ah, the giant that is Rembrandt; he's God, he's God!

..My paintings are a heap of shit, but better than Modigliani, Marc Chagall, and Krémènge [a Russian companion painter]. Some day I will destroy my canvases, but they are too cowardly to do it.

Dear Mrs. Castaing, please come over after midday at 2 o'clock with a white dress without sleeves in order to pose. Because today I will not go to Mrs. Saxe. I am disgusted to do nothing at all.

You have no right to interfere with my art. Your wife is not your property. I need her, in order to finish my picture, I must have her! I will sue you! [the woman returned by persuasion of the Castaings who supported Soutine].

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chaim Soutine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.