JAMES ENSOR ~ ON HIS ART

“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.”

— James Ensor

Photo James Ensor and Ernest Rousseau on the beach near Oostende (Belgium) ca. 1892

James Ensor, Masks Confronting Death (1888)