Color Quotes - Page 6

• Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cutting, Carving

  "The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse".

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• I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Love, Mad, Corn

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Kwanzaa, Common Threads, Diversity

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• People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

  Markus Zusak

  Passing Moments, Clouds, People

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.4, RH Childrens Books

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• Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

  Claude Monet

  Sleep, Worry, Constant

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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• Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

  Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

  Use, Emotion, Paint

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• I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Blue, Shade, Constraints

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• Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.

  Raoul Dufy

  Character, Blue, Yellow

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• If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

  Adolf Hitler

  Artist, Blue, Criminals

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• Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Variables, Pigment, Form

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• When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

  Paul Cezanne

  Achieve, Form, Fullness

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• Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

  Jules Feiffer

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

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• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Creating, Special

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• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

  David Letterman

  Change, Fun, Fall

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• The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

  Gene Simmons

  Makeup, Reality, Personality

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• But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.

  Robert Delaunay

  Essence, Doe, Movement

  "The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay".

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• There is no model, there is only color.

  Paul Cezanne

  Models

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• I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Use

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• The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

  Henri Matisse

  Rainbow, Choices, Historical

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Law, Drawing, Principles

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• It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Colour, Happens, Absolutes

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• It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

  Sam Levenson

  Rainbow, Good Things, Stills

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, War, Two

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• Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

  Marc Chagall

  Form

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