Robert Delaunay

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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.

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.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

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.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Nature engenders the science of painting.