Artist Quotes by Robert Delaunay

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

— Robert Delaunay

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

— Robert Delaunay

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

— Robert Delaunay

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

— Robert Delaunay

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

— Robert Delaunay

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

— Robert Delaunay

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby…

— Robert Delaunay

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

— Robert Delaunay

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

— Robert Delaunay

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who…

— Robert Delaunay