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“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Art #Architecture #Horror
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“Our understanding is correlative to our perception.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Understanding #Perception
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“The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Eye #Mind #Consciousness
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“But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Color #Movement #Importance
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“Vision is the true creative rhythm.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Creativity #Creative #Vision
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“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Painting #Language
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“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Light #Color #Movement
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“Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Essence #Observation #Indispensable
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“The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Perception #World #Vastness
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“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Light #Painting #Birth
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“Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Men #Light #Color
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“Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Light #Movement #Visuals
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“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
#Paris #Research #World
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“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
#Believe #Profound #Culture
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“Seeing is in itself a movement.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Vision #Movement
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“Nature engenders the science of painting”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Painting
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“Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Reality #Vision #Contemplation
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“If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Art #Relate
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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.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Art #Communication #Men
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“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 #Hands #Color
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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.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Definitions #Care #Take Care
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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.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Believe #Color #Movement
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“In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Color #Essence #Movement
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“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize...”
-- Robert Delaunay
#Art #Mean #Light
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