Raoul Dufy
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.Collection: Art
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.Collection: Art
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.Collection: Character
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.Collection: Love
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.Collection: What Matters
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.Collection: Sun
Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.Collection: Character
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.Collection: Hypothesis