Best color & drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.”

Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

“Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.”

“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

Giving Beautiful Black White Pleasure Color Drawing Black And White Beautiful Colors

Book:On Poetry and Style

Source: On Poetry and Style

“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”

Form Color Cold Silent Drawing Spots Construction Concealed Calculations

Author:Giacomo Puccini

“I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.”

Stills Use Results Color Bears Fruit Drawing Closest Dubious

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.”

Law Principles Taught Color Easier Drawing Fixed Colour

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.”

Enough Seems Color Painting Ambition Mass Draws Drawing Distraction Drawing And Painting

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”

Should Values Produce Color Drawing

Author:Camille Pissarro

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.”

Knows Kids Color Painting Theory Drawing Nine Composition Drawing And Painting

Author:David Salle

“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”

People Knows Form Know How Style Particular Color Draws Harmony Drawing Execution

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.”

Ifs Knows May Play Beautiful Interesting Nice Color Painting Red Blue Drawing Very Interesting Very Nice Beautiful Paintings

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.”

Mean Color Painting Drawing

Author:John French Sloan

“I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.”

Years Real Found Color Painting Drawing Scales Mediums Translate

Author:Nelson Shanks

“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.”

Kind Art Kids Father Felt Easy Water Class Color Draws Drawing Painter Hated Sunday Assignments Art Class

Author:Wade Guyton

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.”

Two Strong Color Painting Shapes Plant Drawing Sculpture

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.”

Firsts Done Form Color Painting Drawing Collages

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”

Men Giving Mind Hands Form Color Painting Shapes Paper Essence Bases Edges Drawing Command Outlines

Author:Alexander Eliot

“The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.”

Causes Lines Conditions Color Drawing Discrimination Tendencies Discouragement Reactionaries

Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.”

Ifs Art Study Color Perspective Genius Let Me Mathematics Refuse Drawing Laziness Aesthetics Anatomy

Author:Salvador Dali

“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.”

People Ifs Want Should Ideas Use Fall Energy Simple Pieces Color Painting Falling In Love Finals Committed Obvious Drawing Mediums Composition Indication Collages

Author:Dave McKean

“The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.”

World Trying Reality Names Gone Forever Color Bird Sacred Following Drawing Core Being True Preserves Heat Fragile Entity Oblivion Like Something Shrinking Idiom

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.”

Stuff Lines Records Color Okay Drawing Just Do It

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.”

Doe Ideas Would Be Wanted Felt Bits Black White Pieces Color Draws Woods Be Good Drawing Landscape Black And White New Ideas

Author:David Hockney

“Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.”

Mean Two Different Form Color Draws Paint Drawing Different Things Two Different Things

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.”

Wells Ideas Use Interesting Color Roots Drawing Beer Dull Compliment Ink Interesting Ideas Root Beer

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.”

Artist Color Painting Finals Drawing

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.”

Men Soul Impossible Color Expression Genius Drawing

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

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