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“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.”

Doe Light Sun Position Color Painting Bears Landscape Comparison Brightness Vivacity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.”

Should Firsts May Next Color Flower Manage Our Thoughts Select Shepherds Brightness Garlands

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

Color Brightness

Author:Jennifer Niven

“... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.”

Men Soul Race Principles Talent Human Nature Color He Man Genius Skins Shining Brilliant Wit Brightness

Book:Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

“Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.”

Men Children States Nations Color Red Yellow Brightness Fondness Uncivilized

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

Form Darkness Movement Color Painting Ten Concerned Substance Brightness Remoteness

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists