Vitamin of Colors

Painters' quotes: colour in words

Abstract painting speaks first to emotion: before it is understood, colour is felt. Here are a few words from painters who made colour and abstraction their language, echoing the path of Régine Gardan.

On colour

"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."

Wassily Kandinsky

"Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings."

Wassily Kandinsky

"When I put a green, it is not grass; when I put a blue, it is not the sky."

Henri Matisse

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

Vincent van Gogh

"Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet."

Paul Cézanne

"Colour, what a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."

Paul Gauguin

On abstraction

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

Paul Klee

"Colour possesses me. I no longer need to chase after it. It will possess me always. Colour and I are one."

Paul Klee

On emotion

"Colour in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."

Vincent van Gogh

"Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

Pablo Picasso

"In our life there is a single colour which gives meaning to life and art: the colour of love."

Marc Chagall

Each canvas in the collection continues, in its own way, this conversation between colour and emotion.