Colors are the smiles of nature.
Il pittore deve comporre i colori come il musicista i suoni.

Artists
Titian
Born around 1488 in the Venetian Republic, Titian led the Venetian color revolution. His free brushwork and rich palette influenced Rubens, Velazquez, and the entire Western colorist tradition.
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Titian's Other Quotes
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
-- Pythagoras
I do not wish to be called divine while alive.
-- Titian
I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.
-- El Greco
Color is my daily obsession, my joy and my torment.
-- Claude Monet
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe