Occupation: Artist Birth: March 19, 1888 Death: March 25, 1976
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done ….
One line plus one line results in many meanings..
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions..
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!.
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two….
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations..
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel..
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature..
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art..
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world..
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will sho….
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness..
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience..
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another..
Color deceives continuously..
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous..
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the H….
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers..
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always wil….
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore….
If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can ….