“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.” DoeLightSunPositionColorPaintingBearsLandscapeComparisonBrightnessVivacity Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.” PeopleThinkingWorldBeliefForceLosesViewsAcceptingColorJudgmentIdealsFundamentalsComparisonCriteriaRetardedShort People Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.” KnowsChildrenFormAttentionQualityColorExerciseJudgmentSensesComparisonRepetition Author:Maria Montessori
“Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.” GivingJoyColorShapesDepthIndifferenceComparisonWorthwhileSamadhi Author:Frederick Lenz
“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsImportantSelfSeemsSpiritOrderWaterExistenceAcceptingColorGratitudeAbsolutesPhotographOilDrawingIntenseSelf RealizationMediumsRealizationUselessComparisonDespiseJustificationInferiorsIrrelevantEmphasisImpotenceEtching Author:Paul Strand