Charles E. Burchfield Quotes

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Colors

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • High
  • Jesus
  • Walk

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

  

  Warren G
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Industry

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

  

  Becky G
  • Picture
  • Colors
  • Musically

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Picture

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

  

  George Bodenheimer
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Goodbye

• What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Fashion
  • Best
  • Discipline

• An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

  

  Charles E. Burchfield
  • Artist
  • Colors
  • Contrasts