“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.” MovingPaintingAmountAreasContrastObservers Author:Mike Svob
“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.” WayShouldBigsTogetherBeautifulYoungNextStrongProducePaintingDirectWeakUglyContraryNarrativeContrastVary Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.” PositionPaintingContrastStemOrganisation Author:Roy Lichtenstein