Top 24 Quotes by Robert Delaunay

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

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 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.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

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

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.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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