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  • Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

  • The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

    "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.
  • In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  • The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

    "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.
  • Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

  • A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  • My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

  • I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

  • Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

    Georges Rouault, Ileana Marcoulesco, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (1996). “Georges Rouault: the inner light”, Menil Foundation
  • Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

  • Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

    "Rouault". Book by Lionello Venturi, 1947.
  • 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.

    "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.
  • For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

    Art   Night   Laughing  
  • 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.

    "Soliloques" by Georges Rouault, 1944.
  • I am a believer and a conformist.

    "La Renaissance" by Georges Rouault, XX, no. 10-12, 1937.
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