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Theatre Designer Inspirational Quotes (25)

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If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.
Pierre Soulages
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Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
Robert Delaunay
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Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.
Pierre Soulages
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I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.
Pierre Soulages
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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
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At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.
Pierre Soulages
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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.
Robert Delaunay
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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
Robert Delaunay
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Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
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But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.
Robert Delaunay
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But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
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Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.
Pierre Soulages
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I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
Pierre Soulages
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Seeing is in itself a movement.
Robert Delaunay
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Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.
Pierre Soulages
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For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.
Pierre Soulages
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Nature engenders the science of painting
Robert Delaunay
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.
Robert Delaunay
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Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.
Pierre Soulages
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The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Robert Delaunay
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It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.
Pierre Soulages
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It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.
Pierre Soulages
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Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.
Robert Delaunay
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