30th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, blue, painting
Filed as Quote of the day
“Never has a pigment been better named than ultramarine blue. Fashionable, even today, in its nomenclature! It is ultra in every way.”
Karen Fitzgerald
American Artist (more…)
29th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, black, blue, ivory, painting, red
Filed as Quote of the day
“What, you haven’t any ivory-black on your palette? If you think you are going to make black with blue and red, I can’t have you in my class. You might stir up trouble with such ideas.”
Fernand Cormon
French Painter (December 24, 1845 - March 20, 1924)
28th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, painting
Filed as Quote of the day
“I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”
Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Artist (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) (more…)
27th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, emotions, painting
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“Colour should be used to depict the three major emotions in a man’s life – anticipation, realization and retrospection.”
Ernest Lawson
Canadian-born American Impressionist Painter, 1873-1939 (more…)
26th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, painting
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“The mind is excited by what painters refer to as ‘broken color’, the juxtaposition of two or more colors in a single passage.”
Eric Wiegardt, AWS NWS
American Watercolor Artist (more…)
25th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, black, blue, Creativity, gray, red
Filed as Quote of the day
“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment’s peace – and even whole-being rejuvenation – by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”
Eric Maisel
San Francisco-based Creativity Coach for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians (more…)
22nd Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, painting, red
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“I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.”
Edvard Munch (more…)
20th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: artist, green, painting, purple, red, skintones, 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
Artist (more…)
