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“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”

Source: Snow Country

“When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.”

May Loses Color Models Harmony Range Tone Imitation

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“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

“Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.”

Sky Color Wall Red Opposites Harmony Extremes Brilliant Soil Harsh Orange Crude Slopes Tiles Greenery Cobalt

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”

People Knows Form Know How Style Particular Color Draws Harmony Drawing Execution

Author:Paul Gauguin

“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

Way Has Beens Important Walks Teach Seeing Color Poet Shapes Harmony Woods Painter Faculty Museums Walk In The Woods

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.”

Ifs World Persons Pieces This World Color Planets Huge Harmony Working It Quilts Yarn Small Pieces

Author:Cicely Tyson

“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

“I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation.”

People World Want Matter Race Color Harmony No Matter What Backgrounds Orientation

Author:Common

“It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony.”

Together Choices Building Color Amount Harmony Enormous Etc Working Together Balconies

Author:John Hench

“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

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912