Top 9 Quotes by Edouard Vuillard

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

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

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.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Edouard Vuillard

Art, Poetic, Aim

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Edouard Vuillard

School, Self, Individuality

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.

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.

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