Palette Quotes

• The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

  Robert Brault

  Dream, Memories, Color

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Color, Sensations

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• Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Form, Instruments

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• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

  Marc Chagall

  Love, Life, Art

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• A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, World, Wander

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• Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.

  Jonathan Adler

  Running, Home, Heart

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• When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Rainbow, Looks

  "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Color, Needs, Composer

  "Cellist, Human Rights Crusader Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80", www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Expression, Color

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• Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Perception, Paint

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Music, Color, Use

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• Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Waiting, Experience, Unseen

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Order, Purpose, Results

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• I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

  Emma Donoghue

  Myopic, Intense

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

  Josephine Baker

  Dance, African American, Care

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• Everybody's going to do the 3D slightly differently the same way that people are going to deal with color differently. Some movies downplay the color, some color is very vibrant. Color design is very different. We've got to think of 3D like color or like sound, as just part of the creative palette that we paint with and not some whole new thing that completely redefines the medium.

  James Cameron

  Thinking, Color, People

  "James Cameron, Alister Grierson, and Andrew Wight Interview SANCTUM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, Blue, Somewhere Else

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• Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Artist, Color, Beginners

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• Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.

  Kate Moss

  Black, Dresses, Red

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• Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

  Amy Grant

  Real, Color, Black

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Joy, Delight

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• Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  Mary Balogh

  Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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• I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

  Ronny Cox

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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