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Joseph Raffael Quotes



Quotes by Joseph Raffael - (10 quotes)

Joseph Raffael - From the Colour category:

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

Joseph Raffael - From the Composition category:

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

Joseph Raffael - From the Language category:

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

Joseph Raffael - From the Movement category:

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)

Joseph Raffael - From the Painting category:

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)

Joseph Raffael - From the Reality category:

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)

Joseph Raffael - From the Space category:

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

Joseph Raffael - From the Spectator category:

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around. (Joseph Raffael)

Joseph Raffael - From the Subject category:

Painting is the subject of painting. (Joseph Raffael)

Joseph Raffael - From the Watercolours category:

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)