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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
Explore more quotes by Robert Delaunay
"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."
"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."
"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."
"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
"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."
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