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"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"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!'"
"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."
"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 use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
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"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
"Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see."
"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again."
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