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The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. -- Tim Fargo
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. -- Edvard Munch
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. -- Larry Poons
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. -- Paul Stanley
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. -- Viggo Mortensen
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. -- Jackson Pollock
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. -- Ellsworth Kelly
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! -- Randy Bachman
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind. -- John Kricfalusi
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors. -- Cecilia Bartoli
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. -- Roy Lichtenstein
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. -- Sergei Eisenstein
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. -- Ellsworth Kelly
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. -- Jasper Johns
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. -- Chuck Close
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know? -- Billy Magnussen
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words. -- A. S. Byatt
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me. -- Irving Stone
The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. -- Jerry Saltz
Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. -- John French Sloan
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. -- Nicolas Poussin
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. -- Kazimir Malevich
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. -- Alexander Eliot
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky -- Yoko Ono
If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. -- Robert Reynolds
The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. -- Joseph Raffael
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. -- Jules Olitski
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. -- Matt Smith
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color. -- Joseph Raffael
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. -- Theo van Doesburg
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. -- David Salle
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. -- David Levithan
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind. -- Charlie Day
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. -- Mary Cassatt
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. -- Piet Mondrian
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. -- Leonardo da Vinci
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. -- James Whistler
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make. -- Denzel Washington
In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful. -- Matt Smith
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. -- Mandy Patinkin

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