“Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or
light – only as color.”
Charles Demuth
Sensational Color Pro Kate Smith
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“Renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white.”
Ambroise Vollard
“If you thoroughly mix the color on the palette, you will kill the color. Mixing ahead of time only works when you’re painting the kitchen walls!”
Aleksander Titovets
“If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color? I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!”
Alberto Giacometti
“Never use pure white; it doesn’t exist in nature.”
Aldro T. Hibbard
“A smart walk through a gallery from a fifteenth century to a sixteenth century, and then a seventeenth century room will reveal how in successive centuries the brilliancy of oil picture diminishes.”
Arthur Pillans Laurie
“Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.”
Edouard Manet
“Black is not a color.”
Edouard Manet
“Put variety in white.”
Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Painters use red like spice.”
Derek Jarman
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