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“In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.”

Form Used Lines Simple Cases Produce Color Elements Logical Squares Finite Variation Methodology Cubes

Author:Sol LeWitt

“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”

Should Values Produce Color Drawing

Author:Camille Pissarro

“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

“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.”

World Light Seems Form Sound Produce Color Flames Spoken Word Intonation

Author:Johannes Itten

“Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.”

Next Stuff Produce Color Mud Mixing Muddy Complement Rendering

Author:Simmie Knox

“I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.”

I Can Done Produce Color Sight Hearing Fugue

Author:Frantisek Kupka

“All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.”

Art Vision Produce Color Roots Works Of Art Allegiance Explorers

Author:Keorapetse Kgositsile

“Sodas use “caramel coloring” to give them that dark, delicious look. Not to be confused with real caramel, caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world. It is created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure-a process that produces a cancerous substance called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI).”

World Giving Looks Real Use Used Process Dark Produce Color Pressure Substance Confused Delicious Soda Heating Caramel

Book:The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!

Source: The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!

“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.”

Mean Doe Art Imagination Produce Color Illusion Painter Employing

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“In the digital world we live in, there is no pixel who thinks they're better than any other pixel. And there is no pixel that will not work with another pixel to produce something. And when two pixels come together and have children, they'll place any attention to what the color is and nobody says anything.”

Thinking World Children Two Together Attention Produce Color Digital Say Anything Digital World Pixels

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“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)