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“The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.”

Kind Effects Color Broken Red Harmony Blue Variety Yellow Transparent Grandeur Red And Yellow

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.”

Source: The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy

“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.”

“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.”

Doe Art Body Moving Alive Blood Movement Color Painting Variety Works Of Art

Author:Joseph Raffael

“The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.”

Giving Wells Light Our Lives Color Variety Shade Strife

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke

“A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.”

Ifs Way Color Benefits Green Add Variety Meals Vegetables Plates Colorful Protein Nutrients Carbohydrates

Author:Summer Sanders

“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”

Source: Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.”

Source: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language

“Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.”

Language Emotion Color Music Is Variety Nuance Ethereal Changing Colors

Author:Carl Maria von Weber

“Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.”

Animal Color Skins Variety Vegetables Mushrooms Fiber Minerals Rainstorms

Author:Joni Mitchell

“One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations on "Le Folie." You'll definitely hear - I mean, I think if we listen to, say, the last couple of minutes of that track, there's a wide range of colors that the harpsichord is capable of. And I think, you know, that gives lie to the assumption that it doesn't have that kind of variety. And I think it very much speaks for itself.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Kind Mean Lasts Lying Speak Minutes Color Son Couple Capable Track Wide Variety Range Assumption Variation

Author:Mahan Esfahani

“There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.”

People Thinking Matter Walks Streets New York Color Shapes Size Backgrounds Variety Visible Concentration Ethnic Background

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.”

Running Class Four Week Advice Rocks Color Dad Exercise Yoga Fruit Plenty Variety Climbing Vegetables Mum Plates Workout Making Time Rock Climbing Fruits And Vegetables Mum And Dad

Author:Rose McIver