Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis was a French painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.

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• ...Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
• Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote or whatnot, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
• I believe that art should sanctify nature.
• 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.