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The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists. L'art pour l'art and other grave problems no longer gave me a headache; they seemed to me so much bosh hand interested me as little as platonic love.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..

[T]ranslated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

[how anyone could] remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.

I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.

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