Paul Cezanne Quotes

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.

Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

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

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

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

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

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

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

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

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

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.

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

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

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.

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

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

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