Vuillard Quotes

#1. The painter's instrument
is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard

#2. To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Edouard Vuillard

#3. Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy ... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.

Paul Signac

#4. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

#5. Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time.

Edward Gorey

#6. We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Edouard Vuillard

#7. Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting

Edouard Vuillard

#8. I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Edouard Vuillard

#9. I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Jack Kirby

#10. Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Edouard Vuillard

#11. Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

C. G. Jung

#12. All of the products I take help me feel like I'm getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They're a big part of preparing and recovering each week.

Drew Brees

#13. In the last few weeks, I had changed. But in my mind, those changes had been for the better. I was finally getting over things, stepping over the careful box I'd drawn around myself all those months ago.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Oswald Chambers

#15. The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

Edouard Vuillard

#16. Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

Edouard Vuillard

#17. There is no art without a poetic aim.

Edouard Vuillard