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Robert Delaunay
1885 – 1941 • French • Artist
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Showing 24 quotesFirst 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
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
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
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.— 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
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
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.— Robert Delaunay
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.— Robert Delaunay
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.— Robert Delaunay
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.— Robert Delaunay
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