31st Jul. '08 • Quotes About Color •
Filed as Quote of the day
“I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.”
Guido Molinari
“Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.”
Fernand Leger
29th Jul. '08 • Trends • Tags: color forecast, fashion, red, Trends
Filed as Color fun
I had to laugh when I read the response UK Telegraph columnist Hadley Freeman gave her reader to their fashion question. She pokes fun at trend forecasting in ‘Recession chic’
In the red: apparently scarlet pieces are a sign of the recession
Question:
I read in last week’s Guardian that it’s necklines, not hemlines, that reflect the world’s economy. Are there any other fashion signs about global finances? (more…)
“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more – a rose for instance – sometimes form – the human body.”
Ferdinand Hodler
“Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensation.”
Hermann von Helmhoz
“The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support… each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.”
Charles Demuth
“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.”
Eugene Delacroix
“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”
Eugene Delacroix
“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.”
Eugene Delacroix
“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”
Eugene Delacroix
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