Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

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.

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

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

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

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

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

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

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

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

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Color cannot stand alone.

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

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.