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Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.

✵ 11. November 1868 – 21. June 1940
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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

2 April 1891.
Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940

“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.”

Édouard Vuillard

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

“Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.”

Édouard Vuillard

31 Aug 1890.
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.”

Édouard Vuillard

6 Sept 1890.
Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940

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