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"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"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."
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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."
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"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."
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"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."
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"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!'"
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"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter."
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"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
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"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."
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"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
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"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back."
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"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."
Control
"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."
Art
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
Family
"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
Rules
"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
Expression
"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
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"In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god."
God
"I love very much to draw animals."
Love
"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature."
Nature
"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."
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