Color Quotes - Page 31

• Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, People, Empowering

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• Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

  Alexander Eliot

  Painting, Form, Command

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

  James Ellis

  Writing, Style, Painting

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• I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Age, Needs

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• First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely you will see that you have only a few thoughts repeated again and again - maybe in new forms, new colors, new garments, new masks, but you have only a very few thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Firsts, Mask

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• Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Flower, Vegetables, Ill

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

  Merlin Stone

  Rainbow, Lovely, Promise

  Merlin Stone (1979). “Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage”

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• As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

  James Whistler

  Art, Sight, Matter

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

  Camille Pissarro

  Drawing, Dry, Shapes

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• After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Pain, Light

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• I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

  Marc Chagall

  Flood, Humans, Human Love

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• Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Important, Vibrations

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• Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Soul, Influence

  "Abstract Art" by Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 1990.

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• Color transmits and translates emotion.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Emotion, Translate, Transmit

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• Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Silence, Black, Body

  Magdalena Da̧browski, Wassily Kandinsky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1995). “Kandinsky compositions”

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• The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Palette, Sensations

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• Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Soul, Body, May

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• Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

  Henri Matisse

  Irrelevant

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• Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Drawing, Liberation

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

  Henri Matisse

  Light, Feels

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• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

  Henri Matisse

  Choices, Feelings, Doe

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Color deceives continuously.

  Josef Albers

  Deceiving

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• We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

  Josef Albers

  Motivational, Art, Facts

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• For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Arbitrary, Use

  "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh".

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• The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Painter

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