“I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.” WritingEndsJoyArtistReadingBehindsScenePagesPaintDelightSentencesParadoxBehind The ScenesPalette Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.” MeanWholeEarthUsedArtistBlackCan DoModernIvoryPalettePompeii Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.” ArtArtistAbilityPerceptionPaintPerceiveBrushesPalette Author:Dean Mitchell
“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.” ArtArtistHavensStudentsGenerosityGenerousColourWorks Of ArtPaletteNickelsSqueezingArt Students Author:John French Sloan
“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.” ArtistColorExpressionVisualsSensibilitySensitivityInnatePalette Author:Scott Kahn
“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.” FeelsShouldJoyArtistGainsDelightAvailableMythOur SocietyPalette Author:Minoru Yamasaki