Palette Quotes

Palette Quote of the day

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

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

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

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

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.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

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

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

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

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

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

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

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?

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

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.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

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

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

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.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

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

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.

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary 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.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.

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.

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

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

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

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.

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

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.

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!

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

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

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

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.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.