I really believe that the color we use least in our metaphors is gray. In our political metaphors, we talk about the ‘greens’, we talk about the ‘brown shirts’, we talk about the ‘blacks’, the ‘reds’, we rarely talk about gray, except perhaps, when referring to old people. Yet gray in my opinion is “the” […]
Color Quotes
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
On our way back from one of our visits to Matisse, Pablo (Picasso) said, laughing, “Matisse has such good lungs.” I asked what he meant. ” It’s in the way he uses color,” he said. In Matisse’s work, when you find three tones that are put on close to one another – let’s say a […]
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child… I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than […]
