Top 204 Palette Quotes & Sayings

Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

If you ask me about my chosen colour palette for the clothes I wear myself, I'm usually one for more neutral, subtle shades.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

I work from a subjective palette.

Food should flirt with the palette. If the food doesn't flirt with your palette, then it's not fun enough.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.

The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to the neutral palette. The 1950's introduced green, black and denim blue, the 1960's introduced orange and heavier more saturated color, the 1970's introduced more primaries, and the fashion palette became more recognizable as a contemporary one from there.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.

Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant.

On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.

I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.

I've always thought for myself, that's something I want to focus on - color palette and the use of color. Rather than using it in a way that other makeup artists might, I try to enhance the color palette with the girl to really bring out her sickest features and make her look absolutely the best she can.

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.