Explore Quotes by Robert Delaunay

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.

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.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.