Shocking Paris Quotes

“Everything dances around me,” Modi once said in a night of drinking, “as in a landscape by Soutine.”
― Stanley Meisler, Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

“These convoluted mixtures of color in Soutine’s works would prompt the art critic Harold Rosenberg to say in the 1950s that abstract action painters could have learned their craft by examining a square inch of a Soutine canvas under a microscope.”
― Stanley Meisler, Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse