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• The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
  Leonardo da Vinci Quotes - Artists
• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
  Hans Hofmann Quotes - Artists
• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
  Hans Hofmann Quotes - Artists
• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.
  Edward Hopper Quotes - Artists
• Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
  Martin Kippenberger Quotes - Artists
• Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
  Paul Klee Quotes - my art - Artists
• Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
  Yves Klein Quotes - Artists
• We get used to a certain kind of color of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
  Lee Krasner Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• It would start with a color, a form, and it begins dictating to me what's needed in terms of color as well as form.
  Lee Krasner Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• 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.
  Roy Lichtenstein Quotes - Artists
• Seek the strongest color effect possible.. the content is of no importance.
  Henri Matisse Quotes - Artists
• Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
  Claude Monet Quotes - Artists
• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
  Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• 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.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
  
• There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - color - nature - amazing - Spanish Artists
• I felt a tremendous affinity with Van Goghs deep feeling for the things he painted and how he exaggerated the colors of sky, chairs, faces, to bring them to almost more than life.
  Susan Rothenberg Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
  Mark Rothko Quotes - Artists
• I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
  Mark Rothko Quotes - Artists
• Since my pictures are large, colorful and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative.
  Mark Rothko Quotes - Artists
• You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists