Quotes from Raoul Dufy

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

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