The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an i… - Georges Rouault

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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy …

Georges Rouault

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Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) French Catholic painter associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Rouault is regarded by many as the most important religious artist of the twentieth century.

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Alternative Names: Joruju Ruō • Zhorzh Ruo • Georges Roualt • g. rouault • Rouault • George Rouault • Georges Henri Rouault

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Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh.

Like the ostrich, head under wing When the roaring storm breaks, So many people take refuge Under the soft pillow Of specious arguments.

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..."

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