“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.” BigsRealityEyeNumbersColorWallLimitsShadowNotesScalesEndlessFurnitureLipstickTrue Colors Author:Evelyn Lauder
“There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.” LyingPowerfulColorPaintingInstinctSizeOneselfBrilliantScalesPaleRealismFascinationHueReplicationLife Size Book:Art & soul: notes on creating Source: Art & soul: notes on creating
“I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.” YearsRealFoundColorPaintingDrawingScalesMediumsTranslate Author:Nelson Shanks
“The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.” ColorLegsScalesRelateFurniturePipeThickness Author:Massimo Vignelli
“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.” IfsKnowsMeanCitiesMistakeEnvironmentBuildingColorHugePaintScalesAppropriateQuantityOffensiveUrbanShocking Author:Massimo Vignelli
“There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?” GivingKindTwoFiveHeardColorBattleDirectNotesSurpriseMusicalCirclesScalesEndlessOrthodoxFlavorVariationUnorthodoxSurprise Attacks Book:The Art of War Source: The Art of War
“The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.” HumansLooksHas BeensColorOriginalsRoseSizeScalesMinorsHybrid Author:Dorianne Laux
“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.” MenJusticeRaceRightsConditionsColorEternalPrejudiceCalmScalesGoldenDustShakesBalancedCastes Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.” WorldArtIdeasMatterReasonFormSubjectsColorSkillsOriginalsSurfaceScalesCompositionClicheSubject MatterArt World Author:Jerry Saltz