List of Robert Delaunay Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Nature Engenders The Science Of Painting

Direct Observation Of The Luminous Essence Of Nature Is For Me Indispensable

If Art Relates Itself To An Object, It Becomes Descriptive, Divisionist, Literary.

The Auditory Perception Is Not Sufficient For Our Knowledge Of The World; It Does Not Have Vastness.

Light Comes To Us By The Sensibility. Without Visual Sensibility There Is No Light, No Movement.

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.

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.

Human Vision Is Endowed With The Greatest Reality, Since It Comes To Us Directly From The Contemplation Of The Universe.

Impressionism; It Is The Birth Of Light In Painting.