With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Color is so intuitive.
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.