“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.” ForceFeltDifferencesPowerfulColorAmountSignificantIntensePsychologicalColourSubtle Author:John Paul Caponigro
“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.” DifferentFormUsedPrinciplesEffectsColorBrokenIntenseVisualsTextureDotsImpressionismImpressionistsVisual Effects Author:John French Sloan
“If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.” IfsEyeNextColorHotIntenseVisualsGrayMixingComplement Author:Simmie Knox
“Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color.” LifeSoulBodyRealityPowerfulBrainAliveBloodColorRedCoreIntensePainterSubstanceMeatFrighteningVery PowerfulLiquidBleedingColor Red Author:Mark Ryden
“Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.” KindDoeLightThreeDarkColorRedAspectIntenseDefinedHueLight Dark Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.
“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.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsImportantSelfSeemsSpiritOrderWaterExistenceAcceptingColorGratitudeAbsolutesPhotographOilDrawingIntenseSelf RealizationMediumsRealizationUselessComparisonDespiseJustificationInferiorsIrrelevantEmphasisImpotenceEtching Author:Paul Strand
“Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.” TryingToo MuchColorIntense Author:Michael S. Smith