Sonia Delaunay Quotes

#1. One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Sonia Delaunay

#2. The sun rises at midnight.

Sonia Delaunay

#3. For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Sonia Delaunay

#4. I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

Sonia Delaunay

#5. ZENITH
NOON beats out
on its solar anvil
the rays of light

Sonia Delaunay

#6. Colour is the skin of the world,

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#7. It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

Sonia Delaunay

#8. In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

Sonia Delaunay