John Ruskin Quotes

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.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Color is so intuitive.

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

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

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

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.