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“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.”

Bigs Reality Eye Numbers Color Wall Limits Shadow Notes Scales Endless Furniture Lipstick True Colors

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

Men Way I Can Ideas Different Use Next Vision Objects Color Painting Elements Shadow Casts My Way Originality Fuse

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.”

Mean Light Form Color Shadow Paint Texture

Author:Howard Pyle

“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.”

“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Giving Art Hands Faces Tree Movement Color Painting Fine Shadow Paint Lovely Painter Texture Fine Arts Fixing Reacting Unnoticed Lovely Things Antenna

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.”

Knows Moments Remember Happened Color Shadow That Moment Rest Of Your Life

Author:Martin Amis

“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.”

“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.”

Ifs Want Real Black Color Willing Shadow Depth Fullness Palette

Author:Amy Grant

“There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.”

Light Jobs Speak Language Color Shadow Infinite Lifetime Subtle Light And Shadow

Author:Conrad Hall

“I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.”

Crazy Color Worship Shadow Skins Foundation Brown Makeup Pot Basics Sparkle Powder Mascara

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”

World Art Stills Self Moments Form Ability Grief Knowing Possibility Color Evolution Shadow Meetings Someday Simplest Liberating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the years, working with different talented makeup artists, I learned how awesome eye makeup can be if you get it right. That's how we got the colors we came up with.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.”

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Author:Elie Faure

“I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.”

Eye Can Do Color Shadow

Author:Carrie Underwood

“White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.”

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Book:Dieter Appelt

Source: Dieter Appelt

“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”

Looks Different Sometimes Eye Imagine Tree Color Ready Scene Shadow Window Paint

Author:Grandma Moses