Albert Marquet Quotes

Henri 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.

Our first Salon des Independants, where I think we [Matisse and Marquet] were the only two painters to express ourselves in pure colors, was in 1901.

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..

Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves..

Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?

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

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

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

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

I do not know how to write or speak but only to paint and draw. Look at what I have done. Whether I have succeeded in explaining myself or not, in any case, if you do not understand my work, through your fault or mine, I can do no more.

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

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