Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Raffael

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Joseph Raffael.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Joseph Raffael was an American contemporary realist painter. His paintings, primarily watercolors, are almost all presented on a very large scale.

Born: February 22, 1933

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The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

Joseph Raffael

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

Joseph Raffael

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

Joseph Raffael

Painting is the subject of painting.

Joseph Raffael

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Joseph Raffael

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Joseph Raffael

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Joseph Raffael

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Joseph Raffael

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

Joseph Raffael

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

Joseph Raffael