Art quotes about color

Keith Haring

«Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In ...»

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Yves Klein

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«Recently my work with color has led me, in spite of myself, to search little by little, with some assistance (from the observer, from the translator), for the realization of ...»

reference:Sidra Stich:Yves Klein,published in Hatje Cantz Verlag,1998

Kenneth Noland

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«There is something about colour that is so abstract that it is difficult for it to function in conjunction with solid form. Because if colour really worked three-dimensionally as colour, ...»

reference:Kristine Stiles und Peter Selz:Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art,A Sourcebook of Artists Writings,published in University of California Press,2011

John McCracken

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«I was always primarily interested in form alone, but then to make a form, you have to make it out of something. So color seemed a natural material to use, ...»

reference:Interview mit Thomas Kellein, August 1995, in the catalogue McCracken, Kunsthalle Basel 1995, S. 22.

Richard Deacon

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«Color is an element of that, but tone and intensity, dark and light, shine, shadow, transparency, translucency, opacity—those are all things that I think are present in quite a lot ...»

reference:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp

Peter Doig

«I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light, that is because you want to do justice to it and ...»

Damien Hirst

«I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz."»

Lee Krasner

«We get used to a certain kind of color of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty ...»

Lee Krasner

«It would start with a color, a form, and it begins dictating to me what's needed in terms of color as well as form.»

Georgia O'Keeffe

«I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for»

Stephen Shore

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«Color film is wonderful because it shows not only the intensity but the color of light. There is so much variation in light between noon one day and the next, ...»

reference:Stephen Shore's Artist's Statement

Kenneth Noland

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«And the colour does help enhance the abstract, expressive qualities of the form.»

reference:Kristine Stiles und Peter Selz:Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art,A Sourcebook of Artists Writings,published in University of California Press,2011

Kenneth Noland

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«If you get involved with colour, the factors can become just as actual as those of weight and density.»

reference:Kristine Stiles und Peter Selz:Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art,A Sourcebook of Artists Writings,published in University of California Press,2011

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