Paul Stanley Quotes

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

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

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.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

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

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

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.

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.

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

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

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.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

I paint with shapes.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

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

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I love using color.

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.