“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.” SpaceConditionsPositionColorShapesResponse Author:Richard Diebenkorn
“It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.” MadeChangeDecisionColorDemandResponse Author:Wolf Kahn
“I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.” PersonsEnjoyFrontsColorShapesDirectResponseInteractionPortraiture Author:Mary Beth McKenzie
“My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.” HalfShareLandColorSkinsResponseJewSkin Color Author:Natalie Portman
“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.” ThinkingWantIdeasFormResultsSupportAchieveDesignColorDisciplineOppositesResponsePredeterminedHesitant Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.” GivingLightLanguageClearColorShapesResponseSubtleShifting Author:Kenya Hara
“Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.” TwoHappensNextGenerationsEventsColorHistoricalResponseWhatever HappensHistorical Events Author:Mary Doria Russell