Edouard Vuillard Quotes

• 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

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• 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

  Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, April 2, 1891.

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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

  School, Self, Individuality

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• There is no art without a poetic aim.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Art, Poetic, Aim

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• 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

  Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.

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• Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Harmony, Series

  Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, August 31, 1890.

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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

  Giving, Doe, Etc

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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

  Technique, Analogies, Impossible

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• The painter’s instrument
  is his armchair.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Armchairs, Instruments, Painter

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