
Quotes, 1881 - 1890, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg', August 1890
Source: Every You, Every Me
Quotes, 1881 - 1890, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg', August 1890
“Never paint except with the three primary colors [red, blue, and yellow] and their derivatives.”
Attributed to Pisarro, in Philip Ball (2001() Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. p. 178
Advise to his students to lightening their palette and remove colours such as black, ocher and sienna
undated quotes
Quote in: 'The Death of Painting'; from the MoMA-website: Interactives: texts https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/texts/death_of_painting.html
Rodchenko is looking back: in 1921 he executed what were arguably some of the first true monochromes (artworks of one color; source, Wikipedia:Rodchenko)
Quote in Franz Marc's letter to August Macke, Dec. 1910; as cited by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 129
1905 - 1910
Source: 1905 - 1910, Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 411
“I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.”
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!