Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

- Joseph Raffael

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

- Joseph Raffael

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

- Joseph Raffael

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

- Joseph Raffael

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it…

- Joseph Raffael

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

- Joseph Raffael

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

- Joseph Raffael

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

- Joseph Raffael

Painting is the subject of painting.

- Joseph Raffael