Georges Rouault Quotes

"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Character, Expression, Interest, Sky)

"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Life, Forget, Night, Painting)

"I am a believer and a conformist."
- Georges Rouault

"My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Christ, Will)

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Mother, Father, Heart, Country, Faces, Feeling, Grace, Light, Nothing, Old, Rest, Understanding)

"Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Eyes, Open)

"Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Artists, Blind)

"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Artist, Theories)

"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Death, Possessions, Richness, Sickness, Spiritual, Taste, World)