Charles Demuth Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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