Best color & effects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?”

Mind Together Artist Energy Lines Effects Color Painting Depth Details Surface Arise Planes Intensity Serenity Volume Composition Spectators Calmness Repose Being Together

Author:Eli Siegel

“The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.”

Kind Effects Color Broken Red Harmony Blue Variety Yellow Transparent Grandeur Red And Yellow

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.”

Way Littles Stills Two Different Seems Principles Effects Color Simplicity Manners Different Ways Reducing Grandeur Chiaroscuro

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.”

Mean Ideas Moments Hands Vision Sun Effects Style Objects Produce Color Materials Perception Impression Desperate Unconscious

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.”

Different Form Used Principles Effects Color Broken Intense Visuals Texture Dots Impressionism Impressionists Visual Effects

Author:John French Sloan

“Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.”

Social Space Effects Design Color Materials Shapes Psychological Volume Technological Requirements Integration

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.”

Made Said Light Eye Wish Born Dark Sky Effects Color Flower Clouds Casts Noble Steadfast Pluck Abode Light Dark Dark Colors

Book:John Constable's Correspondence

Source: John Constable's Correspondence

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.”

Wells Effects Food Color Teeth Chinese Culinary Flavor Fragrance Texture Crisps

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.”

Believe Language I Believe Interest Effects Color Shapes

Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.I think the life is the same.”

Thinking Want Giving Life Is Effects Color Scene Pure Spots Dull Bright Colors

Author:Hiroko Sakai

“I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.”

Thinking Strong Lines Brain Effects Fronts New York Color Screens Airplane Saturated

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.”

Has Beens Country Might America Poverty Effects Particular Color Skins Spread Isolation Concentration Bias Segregation Injured Disadvantages Skin Color Melanin

Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!”

People Way Different Use Choices Player Effects Color Like You Mad Guitar Fake Aesthetic Vocal Guitar Player Crutches Pedals

Author:Kelly Hogan

“I love colorful things. I think the world is so beautiful because of all the different colors. With my feed, I really like it to be a rainbow effect, very colorful and vibrant, and just showing happy moments.”

Thinking World Different Moments Beautiful Effects Color Rainbow Colorful Different Colors Happy Moments

Author:Shay Mitchell

“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”

Feels Said Effects Objects Color Materials Nursing

Author:Florence Nightingale

“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”

May Littles Said Eye Effects Produce Color Painting Ill Contrary Shock Opposition Contrast

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

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