Edouard Vuillard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no art without a poetic aim.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Art #Poetic #Aim
The painterâ€™s instrument is his armchair.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Armchairs #Instruments #Painter
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

#Art #Light #Color
I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#School #Self #Individuality
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Beautiful #Measurement #Kind
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

#Spiritual #Thinking #Important
Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Harmony #Series
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

#Giving #Doe #Etc
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Technique #Analogies #Impossible
The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Armchairs #Instruments #Painter

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