Quotes About Color

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

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

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Color will play no part in the art of future.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.