Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
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.
It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.
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.
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.
