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Kees van Dongen
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“Painting is the most beautiful lie.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Dossier pédagogique, Service culturel, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Mars 2011