“For a warm earthy palette, add Raw Umber, Cadmium Red Light, Burnt Umber and Olive Green.”
Lisa Buck-Goldstein
“Every so often change your palette. Introduce new colours and discard others. You will gain knowledge of colour mixing and your work will have added variety.”
Kenneth Denton
“Working in white makes people look into it. White is ethereal. There’s a purity to it, it makes things look elevated in a way. There’s a whole palette of white…”
Jonathan Milne
“Who ever heard of a musician who was passionately fond of B flat? Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
John Sloan
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just ‘coloriness,’ color excitement. To think of color for color’s sake is like thinking of sound for sound’s sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
John Sloan
“The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.”
Henry S. Hoskins
“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





