Clive Bell Quotes

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

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

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

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

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

Color cannot stand alone.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

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.

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

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

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.