Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Raoul Dufy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French artist Raoul Dufy.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textile as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture and a planner of public spaces.

French - Artist | June 3, 1877 - March 23, 1953

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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

Raoul Dufy

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Raoul Dufy

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Raoul Dufy

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Raoul Dufy

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.

Raoul Dufy

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.

Raoul Dufy

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Raoul Dufy

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

Raoul Dufy

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.

Raoul Dufy

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Raoul Dufy

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Raoul Dufy

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

Raoul Dufy