Robert Delaunay Quotes

French - Artist | April 12, 1885 - October 25, 1941

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Robert Delaunay

PerceptionUnderstandingOur

Seeing is in itself a movement.

Robert Delaunay

SeeingMovementItself

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

GreatMeColorsObservationMovement

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Robert Delaunay

ColorsFindMovementTheorySystem

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

Robert Delaunay

ActionHarmonyWillSubjectThen

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Robert Delaunay

WorldMovementIdeaVital

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

KnowledgeWorldPerceptionVastness

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Robert Delaunay

LightMovementWithoutVisualUs

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

MomentPaintingResearchWorldKnow

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Robert Delaunay

ArtObjectItselfDescriptive

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

CultureBelievePresentLookSay

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

Robert Delaunay

NatureMeObservationEssenceDirect

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