Color Quotes - Page 34

• You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

  Andre Lhote

  Drawing, Way, Paint

  André Lhote (1950). “Treatise on Landscape Painting”

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• Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

  Josef Albers

  Perception, Illusion

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• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

  Josef Albers

  Want, Function, Form

  "Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

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• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  Yves Klein

  Character, Race, Soul

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• Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

  Yves Klein

  Substance, Form, Sensitivity

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• Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

  Yves Klein

  Writing, Lines

  Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Hayward Gallery, Museum Ludwig, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1994). “Yves Klein”

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• Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Painting, Lure

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• When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms.

  Oscar Florianus Bluemner

  Art, Form, Feels

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• I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

  Jules Olitski

  Thinking, Surface

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• Color is a language, like music.

  Vlady Kibalchich Russakov

  Language

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• Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what is happening. Since I never plan in advance, I simply let myself be led by instinct, taste and intuition. And it is in this manner that I find myself creating visions that I have never before imagined. And little by little certain color effects develop that excite me and I find the painting itself leading me on and I become only an instrument of a greater, wiser force...or being...or intelligence than I myself am.

  Eyvind Earle

  Creating, Vision, Intuition

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• White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

  Joan Mitchell

  White, Nurse, Horror

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• A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Eye, Men, Feelings

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• I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Giving, Trying, Want

  "Art of the 20th Century". Book by Ingo F. Walther, Part 1, p. 49, 2000.

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• Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms.

  Philipp Otto Runge

  Light, Friendly, Spirit

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• Color, to continue had to occur in space.

  Donald Judd

  Space

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• Color is the first revelation of the world.

  Helio Oiticica

  World, Firsts, Revelations

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• Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

  Gustave Moreau

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• What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.

  August Macke

  Law, Essence, Vision

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• I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

  August Macke

  Dark, Simple, Light

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• One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Appreciate, Influence, Infinite

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• We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.

  Carlo Carra

  Vision, Use, Subjectivity

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• The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

  Johannes Itten

  Intuition, Effects, Controlled

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• The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

  Paul Signac

  Art, Elements, Way

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• The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

  Roger Bissiere

  Painter

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