Absorption Quote by Cole Weston

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is…

— Jonathan Ive

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

— Hans Hofmann

When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms.

— Oscar Florianus Bluemner

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt…

— Jules Olitski

So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of…

— Nelson Shanks

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

— Henri Matisse

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

— Josef Albers

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

— Jules Olitski

Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the…

— Philipp Otto Runge

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at…

— Henri Matisse