Arrangements Quote by Walter J. Phillips

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

— Matthew Collings

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and…

— John French Sloan

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what…

— Josef Albers

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in…

— Philipp Otto Runge

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

— Henri Matisse

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary…

— Eugene Delacroix

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is…

— Joseph Raffael

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it.…

— Hans Hofmann

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

— Henri Matisse

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

— Josef Albers

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

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt…

— Jules Olitski