Artist Quote by Josef Albers

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show…

— Josef Albers

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

— Conrad Hall

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

— Chogyam Trungpa

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

— Alex Colville

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion…

— Alexander Rodchenko

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

— Paul Stanley

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I…

— Henry Flynt