Gustave Moreau Quotes

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

Color cannot stand alone.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

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

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

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

I'm all about colors.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

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.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

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.

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

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

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

I've never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don't know if my red lipstick 'should' be more blue or more orange.

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

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

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