"Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one
has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter
among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting.
Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his
advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing
and clouding their activity."
Rainer Maria Rilke [German poet, 1875–1926] from a letter to his wife, Oct. 21, 1907. Published in Rilke’s Letters on Cézanne (1985, German edition 1952)
For more quotes about color see Quotes on Color
Portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker from Wikipedia
