Raoul Dufy Quotes

• Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.

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  Character, Blue, Color

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• I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

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• My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

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  Eye, Ugly, Made

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• The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

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  What Matters, Way, Accounts

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• One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

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  Sun, Imitation, Oneself

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• Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

  Raoul Dufy

  Character, Blue, Color

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• When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

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  Confused, Heart, Littles

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• I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

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  Law, Conformity, Hours

  Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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  Hypothesis, Dear

  Alfred Werner, Henri Rousseau, Raoul Dufy (1970). “Rousseau/Dufy”

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• France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

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  Art, Eight, Long

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• American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

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  Art, America, Waiting

  Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1953). “Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)”

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