To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith,… - Édouard Vuillard

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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.

Édouard Vuillard

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

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Alternative Names: Jean Edouard Vuillard • e. vuillard • jean edouard vuillard • Vuillard • Edouard Vuilliard • Edouard Vuillard • Jean-Edouard Vuillard

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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.

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.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale. - Édouard Vuillard

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