Quotes on Palette

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

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.

Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light.

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.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

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

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

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.

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.