Painting Color Quotes: top 49 famous quotes about Painting Color

Painting Color Quotes & Sayings

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Use your own paint; colour your world — Israelmore Ayivor

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them. — Thomas Eakins

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. — Viggo Mortensen

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. — Alexander Eliot

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. — Daniel J. Rice

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print. — Henri Rousseau

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens. — Cennino Cennini

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky — Yoko Ono

St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by Alex Grey, 2012 — Rhoney Gissen Stanley

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. — John French Sloan

I'm painting color squares. One
square - one color. That's what I paint. — Nigel Tomm

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors. — Elvin Jones

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. — David Levithan

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color. — Piet Mondrian

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. — Robert Reynolds

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones. — Vincent Van Gogh

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. — Matt Smith

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. — Joseph Raffael

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors. — Yanni

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color. — Joseph Raffael

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. — Mary Cassatt

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

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings — Joseph Pisani

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle

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

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting — Willem De Kooning

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors. — James Ellis

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors. — Austin O'Malley

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. — Jackson Pollock

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole. — Igor Babailov

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo Van Doesburg

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. — Mandy Patinkin

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. — Kazimir Malevich

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. — James Whistler

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar! — Gerard De Marigny

A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror. — Debasish Mridha

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make. — Denzel Washington

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ? — Hiroko Sakai

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins

I think of painting as possessed by a structure ... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski