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Maurice Denis

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“Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves.. ..everything is contained in the beauty of the work.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote 1890, from Denis' essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [13]
“Art remains a sure refuge, the hope of a reason in life from now on, and the consoling thought that little beauty manifests itself in our lives, and that we are continuing the work of Creation.. .Therefore the work of art has merit, inscribed in the marvelous beauty of flowers, of light, in the proportion of trees and shape of waves, and the perfection of faces; to inscribe our poor and lamentable life of suffering, of hope and of thought.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, 24 March 1895, from Denis' Journal; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [16]
“Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure.. .Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, March 1895, from Denis' Journal; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [23]
“..the classical aesthetic offers us at the same time a method of thinking and a method of wanting to be, a moral and at the same time a psychology.. .The classical tradition as a whole, by the logic of the effort and the greatness of results, is in some way parallel with the religious tradition of humanity.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Denis's essay 'Les Arts a Rome', 1898; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [22]
“The common error of us all [in late Impressionism] was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is the sanctification of the nature, of that nature found in everyone who is content to live.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 Quotes from Denis' 1906 essay 'The Sun'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [29]
“To synthesize is not necessarily to simplify in the sense of suppressing certain parts of the object: it is to simplify in the sense of rendering intelligible. It is, in short, to put in hierarchic order: to set each picture to a single rhythm, to a dominant; it is sacrifice, to subordinate — to generalize.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, 1907 from Denis' text 'Synthetism'; as cited in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, Herschel Browning Chipp, ‎Peter Selz - 1968, p. 105
“Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [9]
“What amazement, followed by what a revelation! In place of windows opening on nature, like the impressionists, these were surfaces which were solidly decorative, powerfully colorful, bordered with brutal strokes, partitioned.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [9]
“The sublime is to approach the subject or wall with an attitude that is grand, noble, and in no way petty..”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, 1922; from Bouillon 2006, p. 89; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [35]
“Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Denis' Journal, 1930; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis - reference [43]
“..Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that art should sanctify nature.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is no longer a purely visual experience.. ..it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature.. ..the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source