Keith Crown Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.”
-- Keith Crown

#Color #Lovely #Privilege

“Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?”
-- Keith Crown

#Sight #Vision #Privilege

“A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.”
-- Keith Crown

#Blue #Sky #Yellow

“Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.”
-- Keith Crown

#Color #Colour

“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject...”
-- Keith Crown

#Order #Ideas #Two

“I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.”
-- Keith Crown

#Intensity #Subjects