Colleen Atwood Quotes

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I love using color.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

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

I'm not really into cool tones personally.

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.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.

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

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

My favorite color is black.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.