Albert Marquet Quotes

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

Albert Marquet

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

Matisse and I were already working, before the 1900 Exhibition, as far back as 1898, in what was later to be called the Fauve style.

Albert Marquet

I was certain that they [ Poussin's paintings, which Marquet copied frequently in the 1880's] would never bore me.

Albert Marquet

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

Albert Marquet

It has happened that I have begun a canvas in a brilliant tonality, going on to finish it in a grey notation. (1898)

Albert Marquet

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

Albert Marquet

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

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet

Born: March 27, 1875

Died: June 14, 1947 (aged 72)

Bio: Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Known for:

Post-Impressionism
Fauvism
Cubism

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