Areas Quote by Hans Hofmann

In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color…

— John French Sloan

A color is as strong as the impression it creates.

— Ivan Albright

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever…

— Joseph Plaskett

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a…

— Henri Matisse

Light is impressionism.

— Gae Aulenti

The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

— Johannes Itten

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

— Cole Weston

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour…

— Paul Cezanne

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

— Charles Lenox Remond

“the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.”

— Tom Robbins

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

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

— Kazimir Malevich