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“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”

Way Ideas Names Black White Talking Support Color Painting Perspective Proportion Black And White Worth It Chiaroscuro

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.”

World Voice White Ignorance Color Perspective General Public Gander

Book:Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”

Firsts Seems Eye Three Objects Color Perspective Ought Aspect Thirds Distance Size Finished Diminish

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.”

Way Doe Art Light Color Perspective Perception New Ways Components Reductionism

Book:The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

Source: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.”

Ifs Art Study Color Perspective Genius Let Me Mathematics Refuse Drawing Laziness Aesthetics Anatomy

Author:Salvador Dali

“My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.”

Art Different Use Strong Teacher Taught Color Perspective Summer Draws Foundation Wings Mediums Uncles Art Teacher Strong Foundation

Author:Kadir Nelson

“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.”

Men Wanted Black Streets Color Perspective Neighborhood Harassment Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.”

Thinking Men Done Helping Fun Color Perspective Nails Nails Done

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.”

People Doe Has Beens Ideas Hard Stories Opportunity Creative Talent Fields Color Hard Work Perspective Pool Diminish Creative Ideas

Author:Joe Robert Cole

“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.”

Thinking World Way Looks Different Stories Kids Artist Color Perspective Healthy Computer Bird Blue Pops Buttons Literal Outlines Different Perspective Bluebird Color Blue

Author:Julie Taymor