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Quotes About Color

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~ James Thomson
I want paint to work as flesh.
~ Lucian Freud
I paint abstract expressions.
~ Billy Zane
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
~ John Dyer
When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.
~ Dev Hynes
I love to paint.
~ Sridevi
I have a lot of Burberry items at home, including one dress that I loved so much that I had my living room painted to match because the color was so flattering.
~ Dita Von Teese
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~ Robert Delaunay
I love painting.
~ Heidi Klum
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.
~ Cecily Brown
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
~ Larry Poons
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
~ Robert Ryan
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
~ Jasper Johns
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
~ Ben Eine
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
I'm really pale.
~ Cory Monteith
When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.
~ Amy Sherald
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted women and communities of color across our state.
~ Ned Lamont
I use Manic Panic to dye my hair. Sometimes I do it myself.
~ Justine Skye
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
People listen to music when they are sad and it relaxes their minds. People listen to music when they are extremely happy like in occasions, gatherings and parties and enjoy it. Music fills colors of happiness in their life.
~ Sara Khan
Dan's skin was beginning to lose color. "Oh, har-har. A library, right? Just to make me crazy. 'Cause there's no reason we would go to a library. Right? I mean, we don't need to research Peoria, do we?" Amy began heading for the building. "Not Peoria. Something else." "Not funny, Amy!" Dan called as she pushed open the heavy brass doors. "Amy... Amy?
~ Peter Lerangis