John Hench Quotes

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

Purple and yellow are my colors.

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

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.

Green and black go well together, don't they?

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

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

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

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

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

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

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

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

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette.

Stick to primary colors.