Juan Gris Quotes

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

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

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

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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

How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.