Robert Delaunay Quotes

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

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  Eye, Mind, Consciousness

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• Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

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  Art, Architecture, Horror

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• Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Understanding

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

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  Color, Movement, Importance

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• Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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  Creativity, Creative, Vision

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• 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 impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.

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  Art, Mean, Light

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• Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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  Art, Painting, Language

  Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (1978). “The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay”, Viking Adult

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• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

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  Art, Light, Color

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• 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.

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  Care, Definitions, Take Care

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• Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

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  Light, Painting, Birth

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• Seeing is in itself a movement.

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  Vision, Movement, Seeing

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

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  Men, Light, Color

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• 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.

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  Believe, Color, Here And There

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• But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.

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  Essence, Color, Doe

  "The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay".

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

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  Reality, Vision, Contemplation

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• Nature engenders the science of painting

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  Painting

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

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  Art, Relate, Ifs

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• The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

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  Perception, Doe, World

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• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

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  Essence, Observation, Indispensable

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• 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.

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  Artist, Hands, Color

  "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.

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

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  Light, Movement, Visuals

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• This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

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  Art, Communication, Men

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• 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.

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  Believe, Profound, Culture

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• 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.

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  Paris, Research, World

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