Raoul Dufy Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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