Orhan Pamuk Quotes

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

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!

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

There is no model, there is only color.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

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