Colour Quote by Walter J. Phillips

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows,…

— John Ruskin

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled…

— Bridget Riley

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and…

— Bertrand Russell

In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the…

— Matt Smith

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject…

— Walter J. Phillips

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

— Keith Shackleton

A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human…

— Walter J. Phillips