Raoul Dufy famous quotes

04-23-2025

Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color â€“ pink.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Character #Color #Yellow
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Love #Eye #Heart
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Eye #Ugly #Made
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Art #Eight #Long
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Art #America #Waiting
Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tonesâ€¦it will always stay blue.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Character #Blue #Color
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Hypothesis #Dear
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Law #Conformity #Hours
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
-- Raoul Dufy

#What Matters #Way #Subjects
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Confused #Heart #Littles
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.
-- Raoul Dufy

#Sun #Imitation #Oneself

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