Painting Color Quotes
Collection of 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
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
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
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
— Nicolas Poussin
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
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
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
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think of painting as possessed by a structure ... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.
— Jules Olitski