Robert Delaunay Quotes

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay

Art, True, Creative

Nature engenders the science of painting.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Science, Painting

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Robert Delaunay

Light, Painting, Birth

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

Art, Nature, Language

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

Art, Nature, Horror

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

Great, Movement, Importance

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Essence, Direct

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

Sun, Others, Here

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

Care, Afraid, Almost

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

Sense, Culture, Present

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

Art, Object, Literary

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

Find, System, Theory

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

Problem, Moment, Research

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

Light, Movement, Visual

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay

Art, Nature, Light

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

Artist, Beginning, Color

Seeing is in itself a movement.
Robert Delaunay

Seeing, Movement

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

Light, Vision, Harmony

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

Knowledge, Perception, Sufficient

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

Mind, Eye, Senses

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

Idea, Movement, Vital

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.
Robert Delaunay

Art, Alone, Give

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

Action, Subject, Harmony

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: April 12, 1885

Died: October 25, 1941

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