Best color & texture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Mean Light Form Color Shadow Paint Texture

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.”

Plans Color Painting Evolution Evolve Layers Texture

Author:Katherine Dunn

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.”

Thinking Support Sea Color Boat Texture Wetness

Author:John French Sloan

“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.”

Different Form Used Principles Effects Color Broken Intense Visuals Texture Dots Impressionism Impressionists Visual Effects

Author:John French Sloan

“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

“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.”

“"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."”

Thinking Humans Looks Sound Atheism Color Shapes Life And Living All Things Sight Humanism Fishes Positive Atheism Smell Grass Beast Blades Living Things Texture Blades Of Grass Fowl

Author:Jacob Lawrence

“To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.”

Knows Eye Beautiful Form Artist Sound Sky Share Cry Creation Color Fine Shapes Mountain Praise Critics Smell Wide Breathe Snow Tragic Museums Texture Bark Very Beautiful Eyes Wide Open

Author:Jan Phillips

“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.”

Wells Effects Food Color Teeth Chinese Culinary Flavor Fragrance Texture Crisps

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.”

Want Mind Doe Color Universal Soil Ladders Boston Texture Shovels Cognizant

Book:New York

Source: New York

“Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.”

Jobs Artist Actors Fronts Color Cameras Work Out Schemes Texture Binding Yarn Textiles

Author:Anthony Heald

“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.”

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”

Thinking Mind Together Used Simple Emotion Consciousness Color Speech Perception Ordinary Weight Embrace Complexes Including Affair Sensations Items Texture Psychologist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”

People Firsts Different Eye Lying Differences Race Feet Color Hair Shapes Built Skins Significant Brown Hierarchy Texture Lighters Showing Up Skin Color Eye Color

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive.”

Source: The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

“Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.”

Giving Book Shows Film Culture Individual Chance Focus Color Landscape Documentaries American Culture Texture Pivotal

Author:Steve Stoute

“I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.”

Should Believe Individual I Believe Style Color Texture Wardrobe Accessories

Author:Kate Spade

“My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.”

Giving Given Simple Modern Color Balance Comfortable Dresses Strikes Shirts Print Jeans Thumbs Texture Updates Keep It Simple

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.”

People Creativity Laughing Color Inspired Texture

Author:RuPaul

“I'm not inspired by space in that kind of futuristic sense, but I've never liked retro. Of course, we always get references from the past, but that doesn't mean that the clothes have to look like the past. We need to look forward, which is why I'm fascinated by new materials, technologies, techniques, and unusual ways to use colors or textures.”

Way Needs Looks Kind Mean Use Past Courses Space Technology Color Materials Clothes Inspired Technique Unusual Fascinated Texture Futuristic Retro

Author:Italo Zucchelli

“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.”

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.”

Stuff Color Texture

Author:James Hetfield

“I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.”

Needs Together Space Color Shapes Errors Trials Educated Texture Trial And Error

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.”

Sound Interest Risk Color Caught Caught Up Texture Skiing Vertical Parachutes Gliding

Author:Annie Lennox

“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.”

Looks Individual Wonder Objects Color Painting Surface Texture

Author:Mordicai Gerstein

“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.”

Way Humans Hard Would Be Able Culture Given Social Easy Differences Race Color Hair Skins Spots Constructs Dna Exposure Implications Texture Skin Color Martians Basic Things

Author:Jim Goad

“The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the color of him and the texture. It's amazing! He's like an artifact. It's an amazing head to draw and I have to think it's got to be part of his success. It's ready-made for public consumption.”

Thinking Made Color Ready Trump Draws Series Fantastic Consumption Eyebrows Texture Chins Artifacts

Author:Barry Blitt

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