For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on…

- Sonia Delaunay

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinit…

- Sonia Delaunay

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

- Sonia Delaunay

The sun rises at midnight.

- Sonia Delaunay

About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of R…

- Sonia Delaunay

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

- Sonia Delaunay

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, bl…

- Sonia Delaunay

Colour is the skin of the world.

- Sonia Delaunay

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

- Sonia Delaunay