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"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."
"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
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"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."
"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything."
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely."
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training."
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