Auguste Renoir Quotes

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

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

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.