Letters of Robert Delaunay (do not know in French they are written, or German, but I am translating from English; neisklyucheno that because of this "multi-stage" transfer departed from the original, but what to do? Original letters, I could not find on NETE ):
August Macke, 1912
I need to watch a light essence of nature. I'm not necessarily talking about the observation with a palette in his hands, although I would gladly do sketches and sketches of nature. Actually, I often work with nature. But the most important thing for me - monitoring the movement of colors.
Just so I can find the laws of complementarity and simultaneous contrasts of colors, which organize my vision for my rhythm. It is in this observation, I find the essence of nature, independent of any systems or theories were.
I think that they are in the present, it is necessary to look to the past. If there is a tradition - and I am convinced that this is so - it can exist only in the sense of the deepest movements of culture /... /
The first thing I always look at the sun! I want to characterize and himself, and others, in the sunlight, the movement of colors. And I think, so I find the rhythm. The mere sight - this movement. Vision - a true creative rhythm. Recognize quality rhythms - is also a movement, but the only money that may be in the painting - a motion picture look. This is the most important thing in art, the most profound.
I hate definitions, manifestos, which are written before the creation of work, I was horrified ....
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