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James Ensor ‘Painter of Masks’

Quotes

“Reason and nature are the enemy of the artist.”

“I do not impose impressions. I attach no importance to labels. I don't like adjectives.”

In 1919 the artist Léon Spilliaert wrote of Ensor living “in an old dilapidated house above a shop selling shells. Here he lives a sad and lonely life… among his marvellous paintings… He is vegetating in this ruined and ransacked town… And always the same: sweet and good, sensitive and worried, childlike.”