Quotes About Color Artists

#1. Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors ... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids ... mixed together with powdered stones to give color ... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal. - Author: James Elkins

#2. Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. - Author: Jules Feiffer

#3. Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business. - Author: Edmund Morgan

#4. When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way. - Author: Donald Lambert

#5. It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change. - Author: Faith Tilley Johnson

#6. You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount. - Author: Al Hirschfeld

#7. Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right. - Author: Anthony Heald

#8. There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am. - Author: Crystal Renn

#9. Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God. - Author: Billy Graham

#10. It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color. - Author: Frida Kahlo

#11. It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in. - Author: Josef Albers

#12. I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old. - Author: Roz Chast

#13. If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison. - Author: Adolf Hitler

#14. The living always get over the dead. That's what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they'd only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all. - Author: Philip Kerr

#15. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created. - Author: Nancy Hale

#16. The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. - Author: Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#17. When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written. - Author: Al Neuharth

#18. I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me! - Author: ASAP Rocky

#19. All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution. - Author: Asher Brown Durand

#20. If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore. - Author: Michael Basman

#21. Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. - Author: Anthony Kiedis

#22. But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it. - Author: Michael Walterich

#23. Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense. - Author: Scott Kahn

#24. Forget the damned motor car and built cities for lovers and friends . - Author: Lewis Mumford

#25. If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought," he said, "the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy. - Author: Don DeLillo