Derain Quotes

#1. The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

Andre Derain

#2. At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something," said Steve Bristow, an engineer. "At Atari the work people did counted more than how they looked.

Walter Isaacson

#3. We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

Andre Derain

#4. The substance of painting is light.

Andre Derain

#5. I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. You're staring.'
'You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.'
'Is that the rule?'
'Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a lawyer.

William Landay

#7. Colors were dynamite for us.

Andre Derain

#8. It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)

Andre Derain

#9. The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

David Hawkins

#10. Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

Andre Derain

#11. I do not innovate. I transmit.

Andre Derain

#12. Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

George W. Bush

#13. Fauvism was our ordeal by fire ... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light ... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

Andre Derain

#14. I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

Andre Derain