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"To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale."
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Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted thea
"To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale."
"Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify ones thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it."
"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."
"Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies."