“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.” WayNaturalColorSimplicityImpressionToneCaptureSimplestPatches Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.” WayLittlesStillsTwoDifferentSeemsPrinciplesEffectsColorSimplicityMannersDifferent WaysReducingGrandeurChiaroscuro Author:Joshua Reynolds
“The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.” GivingFirstsLittlesPlayWholeLightSimpleWalksViewsAttentionAirColorSimplicityVarietyUniformsReignSpectatorsAvoidedGalleryGrandeurBreadthQuietnessTrifling Book:The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy Source: The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy
“Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.” TryingMayUseFacesColorStriveSimplicityToneMonotonousCheckerboard Author:William Morris Hunt
“My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.” Has BeensThreeFieldsColorSimplicityTendenciesModelingSimplification Author:Joan Miro
“Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.” UsedChoicesPleasureColorSimplicityPainterSermons Author:Martin Luther