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Raoul Dufy

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Quotes by Raoul Dufy

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France has lived a long time – eight or nine centuries – and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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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.
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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.
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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
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The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
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Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.
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