Pigment Quotes
Pigment Quote of the day
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.
My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
