Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I don't have a favourite colour!

I don't know if I have a favorite color.

Red's my favorite color.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

I like the colour red; it suits me!

I think purple is a great color.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

Color cannot stand alone.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

There is certainly a red for everyone.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

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

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Purple's my favorite color.