Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
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.
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
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.
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.
There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.
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.
You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.
