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“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

Giving Beautiful Black White Pleasure Color Drawing Black And White Beautiful Colors

Book:On Poetry and Style

Source: On Poetry and Style

“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?”

Mind Mean Art Eye Language Black White Expression Return Drawing Accepted Conventions Black And White Conventional Accustomed Translations Obliged Beholder

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.”

Thinking Kids Black Simple Periods Drawing Canvas Disturbing Pollock

Book:Jackson Pollock: the black pourings, 1951-1953

Source: Jackson Pollock: the black pourings, 1951-1953

“Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.”

Faces Black Rooms Study Battle Soldier Drawing Dirty Disorder Vulgar Stains Housemaids

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.”

Bigs Light Black White Morning Style Opposites Drawing Impression Cooks Ties Visible Chests Vegetables Boots Coats Gloves Chins Vests Dandy

Author:Paul Morand

“The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.”

Wells Done Moments Helping Stories Black White Novel Add Drawing Abstract Black And White Consistency Cohesion Universality Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.”

Doe Ideas Would Be Wanted Felt Bits Black White Pieces Color Draws Woods Be Good Drawing Landscape Black And White New Ideas

Author:David Hockney