7 Quotes by Sonia Delaunay

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light

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

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.

The sun rises at midnight.

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.

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.

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