Robert Delaunay quotes

Our understanding is correlative to our perception. (Robert Delaunay)
Vision is the true creative rhythm. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Nature engenders the science of painting. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. View quote
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. View quote
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Seeing is in itself a movement. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. View quote
Robert Delaunay
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. View quote
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Painting is by nature a luminous language. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. View quote
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The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity. (Robert Delaunay)
Simultaneousness' is a technique. Simultaneous contrast is the most up-to-date honey of this technique in this field. Simultaneous contrast is visible depth – Reality, Form, construction, representation. Depth is the new inspiration. We live in depth, we travel in depth. I'm in it. The senses are in it. And the mind is too. View quote
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This happened in 1912. Cubism was in full force. I made paintings that seemed like prisms compared to the Cubism my fellow artists were producing. I was the heretic of Cubism. I had great arguments with my comrades who banned color from their palette, depriving it of all elemental mobility. I was accused of returning to Impressionism, of making decorative paintings, etc... I felt I had almost reached my goal. View quote
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I can see the black spots of the sun [remark to Sonia Delaunay, his wife and female artist]. View quote
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As long as art cannot get free from the object, it will continue to be a description. View quote
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The need for a new subject has inspired the poets, launching them onto a fresh path and bringing to their attention to poetry of la Tour [the Eiffel tower in Paris], which communicates mysteriously with the whole world. Rays of light, waves of symphonic sounds. Factories, bridges, iron structures, airships, the numberless gyrations of aeroplanes, windows seen by crowd simultaneously. View quote
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What they are saying is okay [the Futurist artists like Severini, Carra and Russolo, who debated in Paris intensively with the Cubist artists]. View quote
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Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. View quote
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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. View quote
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Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. View quote
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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. (Robert Delaunay)
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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