Color Expression Quotes

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

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.

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.

I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

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

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

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.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.