Soutine in his artist quotes on painting & life - free resource, French art history

Chaim Soutine in his quotes - the Russian-born artist on painting & his artistic life in France - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in French art history

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In his artist-quotes Chaim Soutine expresses a. o. his strong adoration for the Dutch painter Rembrandt. He tells moreover about an inner cry from his Russian youth, which he always tried to express in his paintings he produced in France. Soutine has become famous by his many dynamic, wild, rough French landscapes, portraits and still life’s, painted with a visibly-raw gesture on the canvas.

He traveled as young Russian artist already to Paris, and lived and worked there with other young artists like Zadkine and his friend Modigliani. They all had their studio in the factory-building La Ruche in Paris, France. Soutine became specially famous for his characteristic dynamic landscape paintings. He kept himself far from French Cubism and Fauvism.
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Some selected artist quotes of Chaim Soutine - as a short introduction of his extended artist quotes in the PDF:

• ’It is the first time in my life that I have not been able to do anything. I am in a bad state of mind and I am demoralized, and that influences me. I have only (made) seven canvases. I am sorry.’ - Soutine’s quote, from a letter to his French art-dealer in Paris, Léopold Zborowski, 1923

• ’You have no right to interfere with my art. Your wife is not your property. I need her, in order to finish my picture, I must have her! I will sue you! (to the husband of his model).’ - quote of Soutine, in: ‘Life with the painters of La Ruche’, Vorobëv Marevna, Macmillan, New York, 1972, p. 156

• ’My paintings are a heap of shit, but better than Modigliani (Italian artist, staying in Paris,France), Marc Chagall, and Krémènge (his Russian companion-painter). Some day I will destroy my canvases, but they are too cowardly to do it.’ - quote, in ‘Soutine et son temps’, Emile Szittya, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1955, p. 108
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  links for selected free art-resources on artist Chaim Soutine:

  • biographical notes on Chaim Soutine, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Soutine, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
  • images of the painting art of Chaim Soutine, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Soutine
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]