Colour Quote by Paul Cezanne

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential…

— Jo Baer

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

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

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

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

— Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston