Art Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed…

— Ian Caldwell

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

— Phil Ochs

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will…

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Paint it black”

— Mick Jagger

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter…

— John Constable

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too.…

— Pierre Soulages

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

— Kehinde Wiley