“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” SeemsCertainValuesColorArchitecturePlanesOutlinesEnergeticGreat Value Author:Antonio Gaudi
“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.” FeelsHeartKindMayRealBeautyEnvironmentColorIntellectualDeeperReal LoveCanvasAbstractionMarbleOutlines Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.” MenGivingMindHandsFormColorPaintingShapesPaperEssenceBasesEdgesDrawingCommandOutlines Author:Alexander Eliot
“It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentStoriesKidsArtistColorPerspectiveHealthyComputerBirdBluePopsButtonsLiteralOutlinesDifferent PerspectiveBluebirdColor Blue Author:Julie Taymor