Quotes About Andre Derain

#1. No one on this Earth knows how old I am.

Minnesota Fats

#2. Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Olivia Munn

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

Andre Derain

#4. These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability
You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be
See the diameter of your knowledge
Is the circumference of your activity

Ras Kass

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

Andre Derain

#6. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

Terry Brooks

#8. The substance of painting is light.

Andre Derain

#9. Colors were dynamite for us.

Andre Derain

#10. Not all evil is final, nor is all suffering needless.

Lynn Kurland

#11. In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. 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

#13. Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female in the world.

Milan Kundera

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

Andre Derain

#15. I do not innovate. I transmit.

Andre Derain

#16. Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. 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

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

Andre Derain

#19. I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework ... procrastinating and negotiation.

Bill Watterson

#20. Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Alexander Pushkin