William Morris Hunt Quotes

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

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Color is so intuitive.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I love using color.

I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For me, it's super-important to understand all of the different nuances of light and shade. But if you can't paint in primary colours, no one's going to listen to your songs, because they need to feel like something.

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

The substance of painting is light.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.