A rock pile

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I discovered

I discovered, much to my surprise – and particularly if I was writing in the first person – that I could become a psychopath quite easily. I could think like one and I could devise a manner of unfortunate occurrences. So I probably gave up a flourishing, lucrative career as a mass murderer.

~Robert Bloch

Colors pursue me

“Colors pursue me like a constant worry.
They even worry me in my sleep.”

~Claude Monet

Colour is

“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

~Claude Monet

I advise students

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: 'If it looks good enough to eat, use it.'”

~Abe Ajay

I love

“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad.”

~Andrew Wyeth

Painting is

"Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

If one says

"If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."

~Josef Albers

Color is

"Color is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings."

~Nicholas Ogden Rood

Sometimes when

Sometimes when I'm having a colour moment I think to myself, okay what would be the most disgusting colour to add here? Sometimes that 'disgusting' can turn out to be 'surprising' and 'completely gorgeous'.

~Angela A'Court

How do you paint

“How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky?
You paint it jet black.”

~Ben Shahn

Oh yes!

"Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?"

~Paul Gauguin

Color which

"Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power…."

~Paul Gauguin

Each colour

"Each colour is applied to the canvas in relation to the colours next to it. The painting becomes a living thing and calls out for the colour it wants."

~Neil Patterson

Any color

“Any color works if you push it to the extreme.”

Massimo Vignelli

If we were to imagine

“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.”

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

Some of us

“Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.”

Louise Nevelson

I have broken

“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”

Kasimir Malevich

I have established

“I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Kasimir Malevich

I mix them

“I mix them with my brains, sir.”

John Opie
English Painter, 1761-1807
When asked what he mixed his colors with.