10 x 7 ins
Images and colours are, for a painter, his way of being, of living, of thinking, of feeling.
For this poor devil, art is his only reason for being.
When, for some, the human face meant only a kind of official Salon portrait; and for others it was of little interest, I felt it to be an infinite source of ways of expression, of an incomparable richness.
Extract from Rouault sur l’Art et sur la Vie, Les Editions Denoël-Gonthier, Paris 1971
Images and colours are, for a painter, his way of being, of living, of thinking, of feeling.
For this poor devil, art is his only reason for being.
When, for some, the human face meant only a kind of official Salon portrait; and for others it was of little interest, I felt it to be an infinite source of ways of expression, of an incomparable richness.
Extract from Rouault sur l’Art et sur la Vie, Les Editions Denoël-Gonthier, Paris 1971