Robert Delaunay Quotes

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• Painting is by nature a luminous language.
• In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
• 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…
• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
• 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…
• Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
• Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
• But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
• Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
• Nature engenders the science of painting
• Seeing is in itself a movement.
• The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
• Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
• Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
• Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
• 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…
• 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…
• The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of…
• Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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