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“On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.”

Use Artist Realizing Doubt Color Colour No Doubt Exhausted

Author:Robert Breault

“It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.”

Doe Said Facts Artist Strong Attention Modern Subjects Painting Competition Size Colour Unusual Sheer Unfortunate Ruined Tempted Grotesque Exhibitions Sensationalism

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.”

Artist Lines Perspective Concern Infinite Distance Tone Colour Manipulation Delicate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Knows Years Has Beens Use Artist Chance Interesting Creative Study Creation Fields Colour Schemes Creative Art Creative Artists Adventuring

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”

World Feels Important Artist Sound Differences Sea Green Colour Attending

Author:Eric Maisel

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”

Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”

Should Years Young Artist Company Struggle Color Colour Deprivation Young Artists

Author:El Greco

“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”

Art Artist Havens Students Generosity Generous Colour Works Of Art Palette Nickels Squeezing Art Students

Author:John French Sloan

“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.”

Inspiration Form Used Artist Wish Rich Possibility Clean Landscape Colour Inherent Begging Crisps

Author:Franklin Carmichael

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“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.”

May Artist Color Fine Achievement Productions Colour Execution Parades All The Best Greatest Achievement Concealment Pigment Best Artist

Book:Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

Source: Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

“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.”

Mind Light Joy Artist Emotion Creativity Sadness Shadow Lays Colour Canvas Masterpiece Pigment Chiaroscuro

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea