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1871–1958 France
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) French Catholic painter associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Rouault is regarded by many as the most important religious artist of the twentieth century.
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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Stella Vespertina (1947)
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
Like the ostrich, head under wing
Le Cirque de l'étoile filante (1938)
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 …
Stella Vespertina (1947)
Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh.
Toulouse Lautrec (1960)
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.
Stella Vespertina (1947)
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..."
Soliloques (1944)
The painter who loves his art is ruler in his own kingdom, even if he be in Lilliput and a Lilliputian himself. He transforms a kitchen maid in to a fairy, and a great lady into a brothel matron, if he wants to and sees them so, for he is a seer. His vision includes everything that is alive in the past.
Stella Vespertina (1947)
The old masters are perfect and admirable examples, on condition that we remember that the spirit gives life and the letter kills, and that even the best pastiche is inferior to the harmonious stammering or incoherence of a child trying to speak.
Stella Vespertina (1947)
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