“In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.” WantYearsHas BeensArtLastsColorShapesClothesIncrediblesContemporaryTranslateCollectingBombardedBombarded By Author:Jean Pigozzi
“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.” CharacterLightFormValuesColorTranslateRecourse Book:Pierre Bonnard: observing nature Source: Pierre Bonnard: observing nature
“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.” KnowsTryingLinesEmotionColorSceneImpressionPainterAestheticTranslateSimplify Author:David Milne
“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.” YearsRealFoundColorPaintingDrawingScalesMediumsTranslate Author:Nelson Shanks
“For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.” ImportantStoriesAbleUnderstandingWalksPathColorTranslate Author:Ellen Pompeo
“We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.” ColorLettersSilentTranslateArthurVowels Author:William S. Burroughs