Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Sonia Delaunay

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French artist Sonia Delaunay.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She formally trained in Russia and Germany before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design. She co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.

French - Artist | November 14, 1885 - December 5, 1979

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One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Sonia Delaunay

Colour is the skin of the world.

Sonia Delaunay

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

Sonia Delaunay

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

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About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

Sonia Delaunay

The sun rises at midnight.

Sonia Delaunay

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Sonia Delaunay

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

Sonia Delaunay

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

Sonia Delaunay