Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

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

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

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

I'm all about colors.

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.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

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.

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.

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.

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Color cannot stand alone.

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

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

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.

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

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

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

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.