Victor Vasarely Quotes

I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For me, it's super-important to understand all of the different nuances of light and shade. But if you can't paint in primary colours, no one's going to listen to your songs, because they need to feel like something.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

I really like the language of painting.

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

The substance of painting is light.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.