Charles Demuth Quotes

United States, Painter
November 8, 1883 – October, 23, 1935.

Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

Charles Demuth
- Writing
- Singing
- Eye
The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.

Charles Demuth
- Fun
- Support
- Heaven

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

Charles Demuth
- Light
- Color
- Flower