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  • All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

    Life   Color   Opposites  
  • There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

    Couple   Men   Color  
    Derek Fell, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Van Gogh's Gardens”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

    Artist   Color   Choices  
    "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 412, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.
  • What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.

    Color   Law   Essence  
  • To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

    Color   Two   Vibrations  
    Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

    Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press
  • There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

    Dream   Eye   Color  
    Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
  • To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

    Stars   Sunset   Light  
    Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.
  • My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

    Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press
  • An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

    Artist   Color   Play  
  • I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

    Men   Two   Color  
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