Robert Delaunay Quotes
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
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.
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
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.
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.
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.
