Édouard Vuillard

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 11, 1868 – June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.

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Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940

• Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
  • 6 Sept 1890

• To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
  • 2 April 1891

• 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.
  • 11 Nov 1888

• Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.
  • 31 Aug 1890

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