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“Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.”

Eye Able Values Color Ought Training Appreciation Acquire

Author:John Singer Sargent

“The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.”

Important Lasts Form Values Color Painting Important Things Welcome

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.”

Giving Ideas Light Values Dark Color Giving Up Mass

Author:William Morris Hunt

“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.”

Character Light Form Values Color Translate Recourse

Book:Pierre Bonnard: observing nature

Source: Pierre Bonnard: observing nature

“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”

Should Values Produce Color Drawing

Author:Camille Pissarro

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".”

Humans Light Values Dark Human Beings Color Eternity Relative Introduction Light And Dark Relative Value

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

Seems Certain Values Color Architecture Planes Outlines Energetic Great Value

Author:Antonio Gaudi

“Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.”

Values Fall Watches Movement Color Patterns Entertainment Screens Rhythm Mess Visuals Plot Lamps Kaleidoscope Lava Bright Colors Lava Lamps

Book:Your Movie Sucks

Source: Your Movie Sucks

“The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.”

Way Values Asks Students Color Paint Glasses Flesh Horrible Spots Prescriptions Copper

Author:Sergei Bongart

“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.”

Light Happens Values Next Waiting Dark Attention Color Painting Oil Accidents Dimensions Pigment

Author:Robert Warren

“I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.”

Thinking Believe Life Is Values Black White Color Paper Pages Things To Do Remove Going Away Bad Things Black And White Reproducing Actual Life Xerox

Author:Ursula Burns

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.”

Ifs Trying Shows Form Values Color Mediums

Author:Nelson Shanks

“Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.”

World Young Values Sex Pleasure Vision Feminism Style Color Hair Months Eternal Impact Feminist Enormous Around The World Mask Young Women Costumes Artifice

Author:Camille Paglia

“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Certain Values Humanity Black Human Beings White Quality Saws Color Red Advantage Skins Brown Halls Warmth Black People Faded Textiles

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.”

Knows Real Moments Values Enjoy Memories Color Tests Photographer Golden Sentiments Baths Trans Splendor Plunge Tranquil True Value Recoil

Author:Georges Duhamel

“I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.”

Needs Looks Form Values Objects Color Expression Aesthetic Junk Palette Intrinsic Value

Author:Arman

“It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.”

Way Littles Art Important Different Ends Values Color Painting Screens Expensive Layers Affordable Silk

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.”

Mind Humans Values Sun Sky Color Primaries Human Mind Spectrum Inventing Primary Colors

Author:C. S. Lewis

“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.”

Persons Said Real Jobs Mother Values Father Company Talent Color Periods Skills Female Paid Blind Males Gender Executives Best Person Real Knowledge

Author:Ivanka Trump