Emil Nolde Quotes

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.