• I want to use colours that complement each other, that cause each other to shine brilliantly, that complete each other like a man and a woman.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes
• You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes
• As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.
  Conrad Hilton Quotes
• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and colour sketches into a final painting.
  Jackson Pollock Quotes
• I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
  Mark Rothko Quotes
• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
  Mark Rothko Quotes