Best color & tone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“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

“To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.”

“When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.”

May Loses Color Models Harmony Range Tone Imitation

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

Way Natural Color Simplicity Impression Tone Capture Simplest Patches

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.”

Doe Art Ideas Space Figures Color Mood Tone Poetic Construction Spatial

Book:Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

Source: Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

“Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.”

Lasts Night Heaven Dark Sun Sky Color Reflection Blue Green Tone Colour Pale Charming Fluid Plunge Delicacy Unheard Indescribable Turquoise Dark Blue

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“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.”

Trying May Use Faces Color Strive Simplicity Tone Monotonous Checkerboard

Author:William Morris Hunt

“I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.”

Color Shirts Tone Outfits Trousers

Author:Theophilus London

“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.”

Thinking Character Kids Together Form Stuff Can Do Pieces Color Shapes Hot Paint Painter Tone Fooled Neckties

Author:John French Sloan

“While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.”

Giving Moments Form Particular Color Tables Tone Subordinates Resemblance Impressionists

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.”

Ifs Looks Different Faces Four Color Red Areas Green Flesh Tone Colour Yellow Purple Color Red Red Green

Author:Doug Dawson

“In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.”

Stills Four Color Skins Fingers Tone Yellow Cartoon Skin Color Skin Tone

Author:Matt Groening

“Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.”

Men Needs Giving Wells Ideas Eye Beautiful Form Sound Lines Heard Color Ears Sight Details Contrary Senses Perceive Tone His Eyes Humankind Brutes Arrested Sight And Sound

Author:John Henry Newman

“Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.”

Want Eye Past Political Politics Walks Steps Color Skins Tone Genes

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

Ifs Men Feels Firsts Children Sometimes Voice Memories Rooms Color Return First Time Track Details Smell Tone Visuals Auditory

Author:Martha Manning

“When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took - 'cause those photos don't look like the real world. The film distorts them, and the colors get exaggerated.”

World Looks Real Reality Remember Film Song Causes Color Tone Real World Exaggerated

Author:Phil Elvrum

“To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.”

Giving Looks Hands Eye Running Voice Born Audience Laughing Cry Color Brother Wind Hair Ears Praise Notes Legs Range Tone My Brother My Sister Smooth Damp Praise God Thank You God Daffodil

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.”

Two Body Bigs Color Conscious Bottom Shoes Shirts Tone Bells Platforms Cuffs Platform Shoes

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.”

Mind Soul Certain Term Hours Color Birth Creator Tone Native Orchestra Inseparable Orchestration

Author:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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