Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

- Edouard Vuillard

There is no art without a poetic aim.

- Edouard Vuillard

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

- Edouard Vuillard

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all th…

- Edouard Vuillard

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect t…

- Edouard Vuillard

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

- Edouard Vuillard

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on i…

- Edouard Vuillard

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

- Edouard Vuillard

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

- Edouard Vuillard