Robert Delaunay Quotes


Vision is the true creative rhythm. Robert Delaunay Art 84
Painting is by nature a luminous language. Robert Delaunay art 83
Nature engenders the science of painting. Robert Delaunay Nature 79
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 74
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 73
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. Robert Delaunay Knowledge 57
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. Robert Delaunay art 53
Seeing is in itself a movement. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 46
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. Robert Delaunay art 45
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 43
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. Robert Delaunay Art 43
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 41
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 41
Vision is the true creative rhythm. Robert Delaunay art 39
The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 35
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 34
Painting is by nature a luminous language. Robert Delaunay Art 34
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. Robert Delaunay Nature 34
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. Robert Delaunay Vision 33
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 33
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 32
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 31
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 31
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 31
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. Robert Delaunay Uncategorized 31

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