Top 34 Delaunay Quotes
#1. As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
#2. ZENITH
NOON beats out
on its solar anvil
the rays of light
Sonia Delaunay
#3. 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
#4. The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
Robert Delaunay
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.
Sonia Delaunay
#8. 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
#9. In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Robert Delaunay
#10. 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
#11. Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Robert Delaunay
#12. The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Robert Delaunay
#14. 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
#16. Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
Robert Delaunay
#17. Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay
#18. In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.
Sonia Delaunay
#20. But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
#21. The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
Robert Delaunay
#22. 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
#23. This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
Robert Delaunay
#24. 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
#26. Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
Robert Delaunay
#30. 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
#32. If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Robert Delaunay
#34. Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
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