Raoul Dufy Quotes

#1. France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Raoul Dufy

#2. I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

Estelle

#3. Rather let your longing be to glorify God by your life down here as long as He pleases, even though you live in the midst of toil and conflict and suffering. Leave Him to say when it is enough.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

David Lynch

#5. What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Raoul Dufy

#6. American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

Raoul Dufy

#7. The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.

Susan May Warren

#8. 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 Dufy

#9. 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.

Raoul Dufy

#10. I wanted to own the air around him. I wanted to subsist on it.

Jack Wallen

#11. I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Jerry Hall

#12. The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

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#13. Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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#14. My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Raoul Dufy

#15. One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Raoul Dufy

#16. Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue.

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#17. What you love is longing for you.

Debasish Mridha