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"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
"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."
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"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
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