“Little by little, I’ve reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It’s not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.”

“All colours will agree in the dark.”
Francis Bacon
Irish-born British painter, 28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992

“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,

“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

“Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.”
Emil Nolde
German Expressionist Painter, 1867-1956

“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