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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
"I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night."
"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep."
"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."
"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."
"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."
"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
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"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."
"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."
"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
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