Color Quote by Ralph Allen

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the…

— Jasper Johns

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

— Aristotle

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a…

— Henri Rousseau

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the…

— David Maisel

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

— St. Lucia

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion…

— Pablo Picasso

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was…

— Larry Rivers

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for…

— Mary Cassatt

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts,…

— J. G. Ballard