Pablo Picasso Quotes

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.

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

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

Color cannot stand alone.

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

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

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

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

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

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.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

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.

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.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

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.

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.

Black is not a color.

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

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.