Charles Marion Russell Quotes

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

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

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 has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

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

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.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

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

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.

Color cannot stand alone.

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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.

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.