Checkerboard Quote by William Morris Hunt

“Monochromatic color schemes are lacking in contrast, which is why I start many of my canvas or paper pieces in this way. I can…

— Roxanne Padgett

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects…

— William Merritt Chase

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects…

— William Merritt Chase

Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised…

— Joshua Reynolds

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

— Sergei Bongart

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix…

— John Dyer

When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

— Frank Bruno

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against…

— Fernand Leger

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

— John Dyer