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“It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.”

Form Color Shapes Significant Combination Colour Mixing

Author:Clive Bell

“Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.”

Feelings Color Series Landscape Combination Canvas Vibrancy

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.”

Play Artist Color Direct Combination Contrast Jars Beholder Complementary Complementary Colors

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.”

Thinking Feels Sin Emotion Color Elements Red Sexy Temptation Combination Seduction Empowered Irresistible Evoke

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.”

Hard Seems Remember Used Dies Fans Color England Blue Combination Japan Hunting Orange Hunts Spinning Djs Sneakers Nike Knicks

Author:Mark Ronson

“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.”

“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

Way Art Seems Moving Form Certain Lines Answers Common Emotion Quality Objects Particular Color Relation Significant Combination Visuals Aesthetic Provoking Visual Art

Author:Clive Bell

“Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.”

Ifs Looks May Running Together Creation Color Genius Shapes Combination Spells Packs

Author:Aaron Koblin

“Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.”

Bigs Life Is Color Paint Combination Canvas

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.”

“Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.”

Writing Has Beens Body Given Virtue Color Higher Exciting Philosophical Profound Philosopher Combination Immortality Prose Juice Eliot Hume

Book:Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century

Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century

“By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.”

Giving Doe Real Lines Taken Color Ordinary Harmony Combination Symphony Pretext Motifs

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.”

Giving Believe Reason Light Certain Color Flower Green Various Experiments Combination Vegetables Owing Vegetation

Book:Elements of Chemistry

Source: Elements of Chemistry