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Over the course of the war I came to understand a lot. The Communists are right.. .It's terrible that many people haven't understood anything and want to return everything back..

— Albert Marquet

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Notes from Wikiquote

Ilya Ehrenburg wrote that Marquet said him this shortly after the War, in 1946.

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..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got.

It is in working [= painting] that you will find yourself..

Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves..

When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being.

I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.

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