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Robert Delaunay
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“What they are saying is okay [the Futurist artists like Severini, Carra and Russolo, who debated in Paris intensively with the Cubist artists].”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter, February 1912; as cited in Futurism, ed. by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 184
“'Simultaneousness' is a technique. Simultaneous contrast is the most up-to-date honey of this technique in this field. Simultaneous contrast is visible depth – Reality, Form, construction, representation. Depth is the new inspiration. We live in depth, we travel in depth. I’m in it. The senses are in it. And the mind is too.”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simultanism, October 1913; as cited in Futurism, ed. by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 57
“The need for a new subject has inspired the poets, launching them onto a fresh path and bringing to their attention to poetry of la Tour [the Eiffel tower in Paris], which communicates mysteriously with the whole world. Rays of light, waves of symphonic sounds. Factories, bridges, iron structures, airships, the numberless gyrations of aeroplanes, windows seen by crowd simultaneously.”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les Soirées de Paris; republished in 'Sturm' [German art-magazine edited by Walden]; as cited in a document, published by Francastel op. cit. October 1913 11 bis p. 111
“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.”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Herschel Browning Chipp Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, University of California Press, 1968, p. 318
“As long as art cannot get free from the object, it will continue to be a description.”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On light; as quoted in: Susanna Partsch, Paul Klee (2003) Klee. p. 20
“I can see the black spots of the sun [remark to Sonia Delaunay, his wife and female artist].”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nous irons jusqu'au soleil, Delaunay; as cited in: 'Futurism', ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 214
“Light in nature creates movement in color. The movement is provided by the relationships of uneven measures, of colors contrasts among themselves and constitutes Reality [In this quote Delaunay is referring to his series 'Window'-paintings', which he had started in 1912].”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nous irons jusqu'au soleil, Delaunay; as cited in 'Futurism', ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 217
“The woman of City of Paris' [Delaunay painted in 1910 – 1912] sums up the [his] Cubist period.. ..'The Cardiff team' [he painted in 1913] is more significant in the expression of colour, less shattered. The yellow poster in the complete picture contrasts with the blues, greens and orange.”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Du cubisme a l'art abstrait; published by Francastel in 1924; Quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 190
“This happened in 1912. Cubism was in full force. I made paintings that seemed like prisms compared to the Cubism my fellow artists were producing. I was the heretic of Cubism. I had great arguments with my comrades who banned color from their palette, depriving it of all elemental mobility. I was accused of returning to Impressionism, of making decorative paintings, etc.. .I felt I had almost reached my goal.[6]”
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Notebook, 1939, as cited in The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Viking Press, 1978; as quoted on Wikipedia / Delaunay