Monty Don Quotes

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

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

Color cannot stand alone.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

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.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

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

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

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

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

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