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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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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."
"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
"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."
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
"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!'"
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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
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