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Robert Delaunay
French
Artist
About the author
Seeing is in itself a movement.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#World
#Idea
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Vision
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,
French
Artist
#Art
#Earth
#Man
#Evolution
#Soul
#Communication
#Moments
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Eye
#Mind
#Consciousness
#Senses
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#World
#Knowledge
#Perception
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Harmony
#Vision
#Man
#Light
#Colors
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Action
#Will
#Harmony
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Language
#Nature
#Painting
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,
French
Artist
#World
#Research
#Present
#Painting
#Paris
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Understanding
#Perception
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,
French
Artist
#Culture
#Sense
#Present
#Tradition
Nature engenders the science of painting.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Science
#Nature
#Painting
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Light
#Sensibility
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,
French
Artist
#Beginning
#Artist
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Theory
#Colors
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Light
#Painting
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Art
#Literary
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Art
#Nature
#Horror
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Observation
#Importance
#Colors
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Observation
#Nature
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,
French
Artist
#Want
#First
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,
French
Artist
#Care
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay,
French
Artist
#Light
#Nature
#Colors