I put on my favorite music in my studio and paint. I pick up the brush, pick a color, put color on the canvas, answer it with another color and another, like musical improvisation. Suddenly, I have a painting. I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians […]
Color Quotes
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.
November 1st: A vermilion morning, all waves of soft scarlet, sharp at the edge, and gradated to purple. Grey scud moving slowly beneath it from the south-west, heaps of grey cumuli – between the scud and cirrus – at horizon. It issued in an exquisite day… All purple and blue in distance, and misty sunshine […]
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… The truly wise person is colorblind.
Higher and higher into the spectrum the defending wallshields began to radiate. At the first blast they had leaped almost through the visible spectrum, in one unbearably fierce succession of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo, up to a sultry, coruscating, blindingly hard violet. Now the doomed shields began leaping erratically into the ultra-violet. […]
There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever be seen.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
The majority of (painters), because they aren’t colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs.
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors. (on Olive trees with the Alpilles in the Background)
