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Edouard Vuillard Quotes

French painter (b. 1868), Birth: 11-11-1868, Death: 21-6-1940
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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 that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting
Edouard Vuillard

2.
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
Edouard Vuillard

3.
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 the while searching to express it.
Edouard Vuillard

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

5.
Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.
Edouard Vuillard

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Andy Warhol Alan Moore David Hockney Henri Matisse Samuel Richardson Robert Genn Robert Henri Claude Monet
6.
There is no art without a poetic aim.
Edouard Vuillard

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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 its own, it does not exist.
Edouard Vuillard

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

Quote Topics by Edouard Vuillard: Art Individuality Painter School Etc Kind Giving Color Technique Series Poetic Spiritual Thinking Armchairs Self Instruments Measurement Doe Beautiful Analogies Light Impossible Harmony Aim Important
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The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
Edouard Vuillard