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Robert Delaunay was a French artist known for his significant contributions to abstract art. His works are characterized by bold colors and geometric shapes, profoundly influencing later artists.

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Famous Robert Delaunay Quotes

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.”

Trying Mean Art Light Spirit Order Choices Universe Speak Consciousness Harmony Mathematics Impression Bother Appropriate Representatives Organize Imposing Artisans

Author:Robert Delaunay

“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”

Art Language Painting Luminous

Book:The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay

Source: The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay

“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.”

Art Horror Architecture Constraints

Author:Robert Delaunay

“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”

Art Light Movement Color Architecture

Author:Robert Delaunay

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

Ifs Art Objects Relate

Author:Robert Delaunay

“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.”

Men Giving Art Soul Moments Earth Realizing Impossible Movement Communication Evolution Birth Concerned Comparison Permit Rivalry Antagonism Decisive Moments

Author:Robert Delaunay

About the Author

Born: April 12, 1885
Died: October 25, 1941
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 24

Books & Sources

The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia DelaunayRelated source material

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