Art Fundamentals Quotes

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

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Drawing is the root of everything.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.