Palette Quotes:

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

- Patrick Ness

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Creative, Palette, Ifs

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

- Emma Donoghue

source: "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

topic: Myopic, Intense, Palette

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

- Robert Brault

topic: Dream, Memories, Color, Palette, Bright Colors

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Spiritual, Color, Spiritual Experience, Palette

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

- John French Sloan

topic: Mean, Thinking, Color, Palette

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Love, Life, Art, Wedding Speech, Wedding Toast

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Color, World, Wander, Palette

Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.

- Jonathan Adler

topic: Running, Home, Heart, Palette

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

- Joan Smalls

source: "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Rainbow, Looks, Palette

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

- Mstislav Rostropovich

source: "Cellist, Human Rights Crusader Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80", www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2007.

topic: Color, Needs, Composer, Palette

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

- Marc Chagall

source: Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

topic: Art, Men, Our World, Palette

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

- Scott Kahn

topic: Artist, Expression, Color, Palette

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

- Dean Mitchell

topic: Art, Perception, Paint, Palette

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

topic: White, Black, Sides, Palette

emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Waiting, Experience, Alive, Tubes, Palette

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Music, Color, Use, Palette

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Order, Purpose, Results, Palette

Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring to your work. You are your palette, so give yourself as many colors as possible to paint with.

- Gideon Glick

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Reading, Color, Play, Palette

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Artist, Self, Expression, Captivating, Palette

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

- Amy Grant

source: "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

topic: Real, Color, Black, Palette

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

- Josephine Baker

topic: Dance, African American, Care, Palette, Violinist

Everybody's going to do the 3D slightly differently the same way that people are going to deal with color differently. Some movies downplay the color, some color is very vibrant. Color design is very different. We've got to think of 3D like color or like sound, as just part of the creative palette that we paint with and not some whole new thing that completely redefines the medium.

- James Cameron

source: "James Cameron, Alister Grierson, and Andrew Wight Interview SANCTUM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Color, People, Palette, Vibrant Colors

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

- Lisa Ann Sandell

topic: Beautiful, Sky, Yellow, Suffocating, Palette

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

topic: Artist, Color, Beginners, Palette

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

- James Elkins

topic: Oil, Looks, Mixtures, Palette

Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.

- Kate Moss

topic: Black, Dresses, Red, Palette

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

- Jackson Pollock

topic: Glasses, Knives, Broken, Dripping, Broken Glass

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

- Ronny Cox

source: "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

topic: Character, Thinking, Blue, Palette, Color Red

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

- Parker Stevenson

source: "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

topic: Dark, California, Islands, Dark Blue, Palette

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

- Barbara Januszkiewicz

topic: Art, Expression, Musical, Palette

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

- Mike Dirnt

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: Palette

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

- Minoru Yamasaki

topic: Artist, Joy, Delight, Palette

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

- Mary Balogh

topic: Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking, Color White, Deep Philosophical

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Years, Yellow, One Day, Palette

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

- John French Sloan

topic: Art, Generosity, Students, Palette, Squeezing

The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments on one track. You learn, after a while, they're all good at certain things and other things fall outside of the natural areas they work well in, so I tend to stick with what they do best.

- Thighpaulsandra

topic: Fall, Two, Track, Palette, Things I've Learned

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

- Steven Soderbergh

topic: Thinking, Color, Movement, Palette

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

- Jack White

topic: Creativity, Color, World, Palette

I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Color, Expectations, Use, Palette, Punchlines

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

- Rosemary Verey

topic: Winter, Excess, Enough, Palette

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

- Daniel Rossen

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Guitar, Always Trying, Sound, Palette, Pillaging

We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had to find a balance of musicians who can shift from one instrument to another to make all those sounds for us come to life.

- Stuart A. Staples

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Eight, Balance, Musician, Palette

It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.

- Christopher McDowell

topic: Mother, Teacher, Garden, Changes Over Time, Palette

The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

- Gwen Stefani

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Digging, Want, Able, Palette

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

- Colin Marston

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Black, Done, Leviathan, Palette

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.

- Michael Craig-Martin

source: Source: www.artzip.org

topic: Numbers, Work Out, Long, Palette

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Way, Palette

I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.

- Geoff Thompson

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Book, Passion, Eye, Palette

I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.

- Zooey Deschanel

source: "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

topic: Unique, Movie Love, Watches, Unique Experiences, Palette

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

- Lady Gaga

source: "Lady Gaga Unveils ‘Applause’ Single Name, Artwork" By Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

topic: Color, Icons, Made, Palette