Colour Quotes

781 Colour quotes by 574 unique authors

emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours… — Wassily Kandinsky
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky
Colour is always a consequence, never a cause. — Edwin Land
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. — Brian De Palma
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. — Mark Rothko
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos... — Rudolf Steiner
Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black? — Jay Asher
There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour. — Stephen De Staebler
Put variety in white. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly… — Walter J. Phillips
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips
In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained. — Walter J. Phillips
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract… — Walter J. Phillips
A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent… — Walter J. Phillips
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art. — Walter J. Phillips
The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging… — Walter J. Phillips
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently… — Walter J. Phillips
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. — Walter J. Phillips

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