BMW gave awesome artist Robin Rhode total creative freedom, paint, a huge canvas and the ultimate driving machine.

Margaret Mellis, artist, was born on January 22, 1914. She died on March 17, 2009, aged 95.  She was one of the last surviving artists from the St. Ives Group of the 1930s.
Colour was her true element and she developed a strong constructivist flavor, seen in the often severely geometric collages and [...]

“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

“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)

“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)

“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

“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

“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

“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. [...]

“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