Joseph Raffael Quotes

• Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Creating, Water

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• There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

  Joseph Raffael

  Reality, Ends, Keep Going

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• I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

  Joseph Raffael

  Ideas, Way, Painting

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• With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

  Joseph Raffael

  Art, Moving, Blood

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• The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Water, Dry

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• Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Painting, Language

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• I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

  Joseph Raffael

  Balance, Together, Fitting

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• The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

  Joseph Raffael

  Space, Demand, Want

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• Painting is the subject of painting.

  Joseph Raffael

  Painting, Subjects

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• The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Painting, Feels

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