Character Quote by Pierre Bonnard

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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 is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

— Paul Cezanne

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color…

— Ad Reinhardt

Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong…

— Simon McBurney

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

— Nicholas Sparks

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in…

— William S. Burroughs

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive…

— Joan Miro