Raoul Dufy quotes
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“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 – pink.”
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“I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.”
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“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
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“France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.”
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“American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.”
-- Raoul DufySource : Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1953). “Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)”
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“Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.”
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“Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.”
-- Raoul DufySource : Alfred Werner, Henri Rousseau, Raoul Dufy (1970). “Rousseau/Dufy”
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“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 DufySource : Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.”
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“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.”
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“One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.”
-- Raoul Dufy
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