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" Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. "
Robert Delaunay
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" Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. "
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" The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity. "
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" Nature engenders the science of painting. "
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" The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. "
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" I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. "
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" Our understanding is correlative to our perception. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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