Milton Glaser Quotes

I really love color.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I love using color.

Color is whatever comes out of the material and keeps it what it is.

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

I'm not afraid of color. I like color.

I prefer living in color.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I like vibrant colors.

I like colours. I like to be bright and bold.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Black is not a color.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.