Leonard Nimoy Quotes

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

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

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Mainly as an artist, I like to wear colors. I like to see colors, and it really helps my mood.

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

I'm not really into cool tones personally.

I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.