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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
I try to think and design in color.
Explore the colours.
Each colour is uniquely beautiful.
You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.
I love colors ... as much as I love concepts.
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.
Colours are nature gone wild.
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.
Let's make our existence more joyous, fulfilled and full of positive adventures... Let's add more vivid colors to life in the world around us: making it happier, merrier, easier, healthier, tastier and brighter! Our project is a constant source of inspiration to support these ideas.
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.
I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.
I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
I always like to play with a lot of color. Color is great.
With monochrome painting ... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.
You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of color you are using today.
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.
Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.
I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.
We grew tired together, creating our own kind of art. We became the masterpieces of the loneliest souls. The colors in both of our eyes bled out, knowing that sometimes the most beautiful pieces of art were created from the darkest of souls.
I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
You picked the color?" She asked.
"I did, yeah."
"I love it. I wouldn't have thought a color so dark would look good in here but it does."
"Dark, warm colors work best in low-light rooms."
"Did you learn that in trade school?"
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The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams.
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.
I consider myself a crayon, I may not be your favorite color, but you will need me to finish the picture.
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.
By close inspection ... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.
My body is very shaped, and I like to be simple. I don't like to use so many colors. My best colors are black, white and blue.
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.
I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.
nocturnal purple.
I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.
Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.
I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour..
... On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden ...
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
Iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.
These vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
Colors are beautiful when they are significant.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.
There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.
Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?
As painters ... we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes ...
The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.
The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.
Celebrate your differences.
She lived in shades of black and gray - sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband - but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.
In a way, the blank canvas ... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.
Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Design that mimics the sensual continuity of nature's subtle connections of color, light and texture invite the viewer's receptivity.
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance ...
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
Slang is the writer's palette of colors.
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?
I like lots of color and mix-and-match.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Looking to the mountains around us, I saw that the mysterious artist who comes at night had paid us a visit. I wondered how he could paint so many different colors in one night; red, wine, yellow, and rust.
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.
It's a prism inside, holding all seven colors And a thousand shades scattered All belonging to the only one Each unique, and yet together
If I were to paint you, I would use every color.
This is your life; this is your canvas; draw everything you can with love, with all the colors your have; draw all the days you are alive.
Life gives only the canvas, but it is you, who chooses the colors.
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.