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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."

"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."

"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."

"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
Explore more quotes by Robert Delaunay

"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."

"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."

"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."
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