Christian Cota Quotes

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

The substance of painting is light.

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

My passion is really candy, but I know that I can use art and fashion as inspiration.

In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors.

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.