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“Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.”

Wells Art Force Color Masters Reflection Harmony Creator Entry Expressive Pictorial

Book:Art Treasures of the Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse-Lautrec

Source: Art Treasures of the Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse-Lautrec

“You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.”

Knows Needs Color Creator Composer Palette

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.”

Feels Trying Color Expression Shapes Creator

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783

“Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.”

Mind Soul Certain Term Hours Color Birth Creator Tone Native Orchestra Inseparable Orchestration

Author:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov