20th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: face, flesh tones, green, purple, red, yellow
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“If you look closely at any face, you’ll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors – red, green, purple and yellow.”
Doug Dawson
19th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: autumn, blue, imagination, maple leaf, rainbow
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“In Autumn you can take one maple leaf and see almost all the colours of the rainbow in it – although you would need your imagination to see blue.”
Dorthe Eisenhardt
18th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: colorist, painter, temperature
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“I don’t think of myself as a ‘colorist’; I look at myself as a value painter. While I paint I do not think directly of what colors I wish to use… rather I think of temperature.”
Don O’Neill
17th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: air, canvas, light, palette
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“Ah, Chardin, what you grind on your palette is not this color or that… but the very substance of things. You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas.”
Denis Diderot
16th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: emotion
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“Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.”
David Katz
15th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: dancing, rhythm, sky, spectrum, sun, transparent, water
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“Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form… its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.”
David Hockney
14th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: language, pleasurable, rational
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“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.”
David Batchelor
13th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color •
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“Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.”
David Batchelor
12th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: feast, transparent, wet
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“A superb membrane of paint is a feast for the eye… applying the colours in transparent layers on an underpainting rather than mixing wet colours.”
Cornelis Le Mair
11th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color •
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“It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.”
Clive Bell
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