Edouard Vuillard quotes
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“The painter’s instrument is his armchair.”
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“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting”
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“I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.”
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“To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.”
-- Edouard VuillardSource : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, April 2, 1891.
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“Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.”
-- Edouard VuillardSource : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.
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“Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.”
-- Edouard VuillardSource : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, August 31, 1890.
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“We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.”
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“The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.”
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“The painter’s instrument is his armchair.”
-- Edouard Vuillard
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